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galleries and museums and monuments and browse through outdoor markets and parks. During one of these excursions we ran into an American family who asked us if we had heard anything about the cholera epidemic. We hadn’t and were duly informed about the US State Department advisory to avoid tap water and drink only bottled water or juice or soda or beer or risk croaking from cholera. We followed these instructions diligently, except for our last day in Valencia when we were focusing on our next destination and how we would get there and simply forgot to get bottled anything in town. It was hotter than hell that night, and we suffered in silence while getting thirstier and thirstier. Sleep was an impossible dream. Finally, we both decided that we couldn’t stand it anymore and walked over to the sink and turned the tap to “ON.” The water came gushing out, clear and cool and irresistible. We started drinking. And drank a little more. And then a little more until our thirst was quenched and we felt human again. Then we hugged each other and said “Good night,” each of us adding a commentary that boiled down to “If we survive this, we’ll have more adventures. If we drop dead from cholera, at least we’re together.” The next morning, we each woke up, opened our eyes and decided, “I’m still here.” The next step was checking on each other. We each answered “You OK?” with “I think so.” The next step was the decision to stand up. That worked just fine, so we walked around the room a bit, made sure we had stuffed everything into our knapsacks, checked our purses to make sure we still had our passports, got the hell out of Dodge and fled to our next port of call. And fifty years later, we are still laughing about our great adventure as we contemplate the prospect of new adventures in new places . . . post-Covid, of course. - tsc After more than 25 years with our magazine, Tama- ra Stadnychenko Corneli- son has retired as the Eng- lish-language Editor of Our Life (OL). We are grateful to Tamara for her deep com- mitment to this magazine throughout her tenure. In 1994, Tamara came to OL during the presidency of Anna Krawczuk and worked with then Editor-in-Chief, Irena Chaban. She continued with Presidents Iryna Kurowyckyj and Marianna Zajac. When she first began, Tamara wrote many of the monthly articles on a wide range of topics – from gardening to ancient Troy – to bring interesting material to the English-language pages. However, she soon developed ongoing re- lationships with writers, artists, graphic designers, both UNWLA members, as well as non-members, who contributed their knowledge, talent, and ex - perience to our magazine. Tamara’s professionalism, intensity, and focus resulted in in several hundreds issues of OL that were cohesive and produced in a timely manner. Her sense of humor and hearty laugh have always helped all who were involved in the monthly pro- cess of publishing a magazine to work together in a courteous, respectful and friendly fashion. Tama- ra’s contributions clearly have shown that the con- troversial decision (at the time) to make Our Life magazine bilingual was the correct one – to fulfill the long-term mission of the organization, as well as to meet the immediate need of UNWLA members. Tamara’s creativity, her contributions to OL, have been invaluable, and will be greatly missed. We wish Tamara good health, much enjoyment, and well-deserved relaxation during her upcoming re- tirement. Thank you, Tamaro! UNWLA National Board Our Life | Наше життя 15
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