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  • Our Sites
    • Parkstone main website
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    ¿Son los ángeles víctimas de la moda?

    August 15, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Cuando tenía 4 años, murió mi abuela. Mis padres, imagino que en su afán de no traumatizarnos a mis hermanos y a mí, nos dijeron que habían venido unos ángeles a llevársela. Eso habría dejado tranquilo a cualquier niño, ya que estos seres celestiales tienen fama de bondadosos y protectores del ser humano. Y de hecho funcionó con el resto de mi familia, pero yo no soy cualquier niño y me pasé los meses siguientes aterrorizada ante la idea de que un ángel pudiera venir y llevárseme a mí también, o peor aún, a mis padres y hermanos (esta idea me resultaba especialmente horrible en los días de tormenta). Si…

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    Angels à la mode

    August 15, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Close your eyes and picture an angel. Now open them again so you can read the rest of this blog. What did you imagine? I’m guessing a woman wearing a long floaty white dress, effortlessly hovering in the sky (though mysteriously not beating her wings), with a halo atop her long blonde hair and maybe strumming a harp.   Was I right? It is no coincidence that our imagined angels conform to the same stereotypes. In 2008, 55% of Americans, 67% of Canadians and 38% of Britons professed their belief in the existence of guardian angels, and for many they take the “classical” form (human appearance, exceedingly beautiful and blindingly…

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