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Claudia van der Sluis

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in Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 11, 1963

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Claudia van der Sluis (Amsterdam, 1963) grew up in a middle class family. Her parents ran a small restaurant in the center of Amsterdam in the seventies. She describes her childhood as carefree and happy, with two loving parents and a younger brother, Paul. “Everything was possible," she says of that time. "And we were terribly spoiled. The sky was the limit in our home, it was very important to enjoy life alongside the hard work and our parents supported everything we did."

She thanks her free childhood that her career took an erratic and fascinating course. After high school she worked at the PTT (now KPN) in Amsterdam and followed the cooking school at the Elandsgracht in Amsterdam. She was twenty-four when her son Alessandro was born (19
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De Secretaresse

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De glazenwasser

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Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
“I am lying in the same bed where my mother died so long ago; on the same mattress,
beneath the same black wool coverlet she wrapped us in to sleep. I slept beside her, her
little girl, in the special place she made for me in her arms.
I think I can still feel the calm rhythm of her breathing; the palpitations and sighs that
soothed my sleep. . . . I think I feel the pain of her death. . . . But that isn't true.
Here I lie, flat on my back, hoping to forget my loneliness by remembering those times.
Because I am not here just for a while. And I am not in my mother's bed but in a black box
like the ones for burying the dead. Because I am dead.
I sense where I am, but I can think. . .”
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“This world presses in on us from every side; it scatters fistfuls of our dust across the land
and takes bits and pieces of us as if to water the earth with our blood. What did we do? Why
have our souls rotted away?”
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Pablo Neruda
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
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Pablo Neruda
“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
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“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
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“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
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