The Truth About Lou

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Angela Von der Lippe. The Truth About Lou

The Truth about Salome

On the Truth and Fiction of Lou

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She lost her father too early. I lost mine so late, lived most of my adult life with him so indomitably there. Never get used to him being a memory. But to have lived so much of life with only a memory of a father—indomitably not there—as Lou did, well, that seems hardly imaginable. Did she look for him everywhere, every step of the way—that man who in his prime fell from his horse—her real toy soldier? Did she think she could find him, resurrect him again, all those years searching for the spirit of a memory no mortal man could embody? Like a prayer to an idol.

Imagining another world drawing us together, keeping us in balance, denying all the while the real gravity of the world we lived in.

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