CHRISTMAS IN VENICE

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Jan 14, 2019 (PST) | Translate to English
  感動のラスト
  Impressive last
  ハーレクインには珍しいタイプのストーリー義理の母の不器用だけど深い愛情がヒロインの心を揺さぶり最後は最高のラストでした。感動して泣けました。

  A rare type of story for Harlequin, the clumsy yet deep love of her mother-in-law shook the heroine's heart, and the end was the best. I was so moved that I cried.

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Dec 08, 2018 (PST) | Translate to English
  家族愛
  family love
  家族の愛情を知らず孤独な人生を歩んできたヒロインがヒーローに出会いベネチアの人達に出会ったことによって人生が一変します。この作品は人の愛情の深さを短編ながらもしっかりと表現されてると思います。読んで損は無いと思います。

  Her life completely changed when the heroine, who lived a lonely life without knowing the love of her family, met a hero and met Venetians. I think this work clearly expresses the depth of people's love even though it's a short story. I don't think there's any harm in reading it.

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Oct 20, 2016 (PST) | Translate to English
  町が、一族が、彼が、義母が愛してくれる
  The town, the family, him, and his mother-in-law love me
  愛されることに慣れず育ったヒロイン、マリア。彼女は愛されることを窮屈に感じ、受け止めきれず持て余し、挙げ句逃げ出してしまった。彼と出会って、結ばれ、結婚までしたものの、何処かいつも、孤独に戻るということを自分の常態と考えているところがあった。みんないい人だというのは解る。しかし皆のなかにいると、いっぱいいっぱいの気持ちとなり、自由を失った気がして段々自分が無理していることに耐えられなくなったのだった。人の好意がヒロインには居心地が悪く、特に、お姑さんの自分に対する対応は彼女を混乱させた。愛があれば、と言うけれど、愛し愛されという関係がヒロインには安住の難しいものだった。腹をくくってヒロインはやっと、愛を受け止める、只、受け止める。これまで達しなかったところへ入れたのは、婚家を飛び出す前にあった不可解な義母の行動のその理由、それが自分への愛だったのだと判ったから。お姑さんの何十年と抱えてきた心の痛みを思うと、この場面は感涙必至。そして、お嫁さん視点で終始描かれていたこのストーリーが、そこのところの事情説明によって急にお姑さんの胸中の側に、わたしの心が想像力で視点がひとりでに移っていってしまう。この時、ヒロインに出ていかれてしまって、残されたお姑さん(夫も勿論、なのだけども)はどれだけショックで、そしてどれほど悲しかったかと、完全に姑さんサイドで感情移入。私は娘もいるし、妊娠と出産をとてもとても神様に感謝した人間なものだから、ここからあとはヒロインはわたしの脳内では遠ざかっていき、あとはほとんどお姑さんのストーリーにしか読めなかった。伝わらない相手にうちひしがれて病気にまでなったお義母さん。最後になって、嫁さんが母になることを通じてなんとか心を開いてくれるようになって、ほんと、良かったね。愛って、HQでたくさん実っているけど、本当は咲くのも育てるのも実を成らすのも、デリケートなものだと実感させてくれる。それでも、愛を与えられ、受け取る存在あって、広がるものだと気づかせてくれる。一組の男女が恋に落ちる、子供ができる、これらの出来事は、全然二人だけの小さな世界の現象で終わらないのだと改めて思った。今と過去を結び、人に、時に孤独な者に、兄弟姉妹や親、或いは子を亡くした人に子を与えることでもあると感じた。

  Maria is the heroine who grew up not used to being loved. She felt cramped to be loved, couldn't accept it, left it, and at least ran away. Although I met him, got married, and even got married, there were places where I always thought that returning to loneliness was my normal state. I know they're all nice people. However, when I was in the midst of everyone, I felt so full, and I felt that I had lost my freedom, and gradually I couldn't bear the fact that I was overdoing it. People's kindness was uncomfortable for the heroine, and in particular, her mother-in-law's response to herself confused her. They say if there is love, but the relationship of loving and being loved was difficult for the heroine to settle down. The hungry heroine finally accepts love, just accepts it. The reason I got to where I hadn't reached until now was because I understood the reason for my mother-in-law's inexplicable behavior that occurred before she left the marriage house, and that was her love for myself. When I think about the heartache my mother-in-law has had for decades, tears are inevitable in this scene. Then, this story, which was drawn from beginning to end from the bride's point of view, suddenly due to the explanation of the circumstances there, my mind suddenly shifts to the side of my mother-in-law's chest by itself due to imagination. At this time, the heroine appeared, and the mother-in-law completely empathized with how shocked and how sad the mother-in-law (her husband, of course) was left behind. I also have a daughter, and since my pregnancy and delivery were human beings who were very, very grateful to God, the heroine moved away from my brain after that, and I was almost only able to read the rest in my mother-in-law's story. My mother-in-law was overwhelmed by someone she didn't communicate with and even became ill. Finally, I'm really glad that my wife managed to open up my heart through becoming a mother. Love is growing a lot with HQ, but it actually makes me realize that blooming, growing, and bearing fruit are delicate things. Even so, it makes me realize that there are beings that give and receive love, and that it spreads. I thought again that these events, where a pair of men and women fall in love and have children, don't end with the phenomenon of a small world of just two people at all. Connecting the present and the past, I felt that it was also about giving children to people, sometimes to lonely people, brothers, sisters, parents, or people who have lost children.

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