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Post by Devil's Advocate on Sept 6, 2010 12:44:35 GMT -5
... that has significant or special meaning to you. :3
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dio
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Post by dio on Sept 10, 2010 10:47:31 GMT -5
Okay, I got one.
When I saw the Florence Duomo, I cried. It was my first day in Italy, and there is nothing like walking down an old city street with your friends from home, talking and joking and walking with them like you would if you were still at home; then rounding a corner, and at the end of the street you see a distant, mountainous structure, so unbelievably beautiful and huge that it is hard to believe it's a building.
We decided to climb to the top only at the end of the day. We were the last people they allowed up before closing for the night, and after flight after flight of steep stairs, surrounded at some points by massive ceiling art, we made it to the top. The sun was setting, the city lights were flickering on. It was Christmas so the streets were bright with massive snowflake lights that were strung in zig zag patterns all over. And I cried, because the people who began this building never lived to see it finished, yet they dedicated their whole lives to the vision. I don't know if that happens today. People who make beautiful things for people they will never know. I know that buildings like that don't happen anymore.
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