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How do you give your newfound love a chance to last an eternity? You lock it up and throw away the key! I’m sharing a heartbreaking European customs that has grown all over the world. |
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In the small Serbian spa town of Vrnjacka Banja, Nada, a school mistress, fell in love with a Serbian officer named Relja. It was World War I. Love is a powerful emotion, especially during wartime, and Nada was certain she found her true love. Relja confessed his love and then went to war. It was in Greece in the city of Corfu, where Relja fell in love with another woman and married her, leaving Nada devastated. She died shortly after from a broken heart.
After witnessing Nada’s pain, several young women in Vrnacka Banja vowed to protect their own love. On padlocks, they wrote their beloveds’ name and locked them on the bridge where nada and Relja often met. They threw the keys into the water, symbolizing their eternal, unbreakable love.
When I deployed to Hungary, I often saw love locks in the various towns I visited, but I didn’t know what to make of them. I hadn’t seen it before and I thought it was a Hungarian custom.
In the 2000’s, love locks began appearing all over the world. (I suspect that since it originated in Serbia, the custom was “hidden from view,” during the Cold War and the Serbian conflict in the 1990’s.)
Now you can find love locks on bridges, gates, fences, and towers, most notably in Paris, Brooklyn, Cologne (Koln) Germany, Serbia, Rome, and Seoul, South Korea.
Every love has their challenges.
Unfortunately, even love locks cause problems. Due to the extraordinary amount of them, and their weight, they cause damage to the bridges, canals, and gates they are locked onto. Often local governments try to remove them because they’re eyesores.
Really, oh sweet love!
Question for you: Where would you place your padlock of love? Would you throw away the key?
Challenge for you: Write a 2,500 word story inspired by Nada and Relja’s doomed love and the padlocks they inspired. I’ll award my favorites with awardicons so be sure to send me a link!
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Feedback from my 24 JUN newsletter:
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RWA- The cost to join them is over a $100 a year. If you are a struggling author, not published and did I say struggling? $100+ a year can be a huge out lay when all that gets you is a newsletter an the OPTION to pay more money for their workshops, conferences in far away cities and someday the chance to submit your published book for a contest. Local writing groups are better for the money. Once you've signed on with a publisher, then joining RWA if they pay the yearly fee. Maybe after they’ve sold a few thousand copies you can afford to go to one of their conferences. Nope I never paid. I quit the local group because in order to be a member you had to pay the RWA fee.
This was my problem and to an extent, it still is. 100+ is a lot per year and I’d rather spend the limited money I have on marketing efforts. I paid the first year and then had to let it go because there was no way I could attend the workshops and conferences. While I do think there are benefits to the RWA, there is a quite a lot of investment involved to take advantage of all they offer. Thanks so much for writing in!
StephBee is a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. A collection of her romantic stories called "Romance Under the Moonlight, 1 and 2" have just been released with Victory Tales Press. The collections contains romantic shorts from sweet to spicy with paranormal, Christmas and contemporary themes. Romance Under the Moonlight, Collection 1 and 2 are available as ebooks and in print on Amazon.com |
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Romance/Love: July 22, 2015 Issue [#7107]
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