this one walking beside me

"I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,...
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die."

-- JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ
"In 1956, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature; two days later, his wife died of ovarian cancer. Jiménez never recovered from the emotional devastation, and he died two years afterwards, on 29 May 1958, in the same clinic where his wife had died. Both are buried in his hometown of Moguer, Spain." -- Wikipedia

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 "In the early days of the conflict, Juan Ramón and Zenobia collaborated with the protection of minors in the care and accommodation of children orphaned by the war: they welcomed twelve children from 4 to 8 years of age, in a flat at Velazquez Street.

On August the 22th 1936, they left Spain. Four days later they boarded in Cher-village in the 'Aquitaine' liner bound for New York and de couple began a journey in which they visited Cuba, United States, Buenos Aires and Puerto Rico, where Zenobia worked as a teacher at the University of Puerto Rico.

In 1937 and 1938 the Jiménez marriage was located in Cuba and lived in the Hotel Vedado from the Havana. They developed a series of social and cultural activities, as well as, taking part in a political act of support on the Spanish Republican side. They continued taking care of Spanish’s orphan’s children and fundraising through subscriptions in the press of New York newspapers and other publication. Zenobia also worked as a volunteer in women's prisons and donated her clothes.

In January 1939, they moved to New York to settle in Coral Gables, Miami (Florida). At the end of the Civil War, the flat that Zenobia and Juan Ramón had in Madrid that survived during all the conflict had been robbed: books, documents and other personal items.

In January of the following year, when Juan Ramón taught his first formal lecture at the University of Miami, Zenobia simultaneously read an English version translated by her. In 1942 her older brother died of a heart attack, José Camprubí.

In 1943 Zenobia and Juan Ramón moved to Washington and, in January of the next year, the University in Maryland wanted Zenobia to teach Spanish to a group of soldiers. After that, they decided to hire her as a teacher in the Department of history and European culture too.

In 1945 they moved to live in Riverdale because she was given a permanent job. Two years later, they bought a house where she and Juan Ramón Jiménez taught classes. In 1948 the couple travelled around Argentina and Uruguay. The trip was extended more than three months so the poet could give 12 more lectures. Neither Juan Ramón nor Zenobia imagined the massive and warm reception they received there.

In 1950, they travelled during November and December to Puerto Rico due to the nervous breakdowns of Juan Ramón.

In 1951, he had to get a cancer operation in Boston. In 1954, he had to have another operation in Puerto Rico, because he didn’t want to live in the United States. Zenobia not only left behind an interesting life, but also the possibility of receiving a good treatment for her own health problem. Zenobia signed a contract with the University of Puerto Rico to translate scientific brochures for a year. She started her classes at the University of Río Piedras. At the end of the year, she got operated from cervical cancer in the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

In February 1952 she recovered and returned to Puerto Rico. She continued her work at the University. On 18 August, Zenobia performed in the Puerto Rico oath as an American citizen, thus she got dual citizenship.

At the beginning of 1953, her brother Augusto suffered a cancer and he spent a season with her and Juan Ramón in Puerto Rico before returning to the United States where he would die at the end of March. Zenobia completed her cancer treatment.

In 1954, Zenobia stopped working at the University because she was given high medical advice. The American magazine published an autobiographical entitled Juan Ramón and I.

In 1955, the University of Puerto Rico gave the couple a room that will be renamed Zenobia and Juan Ramón Jiménez. The House of culture Zenobia and Juan Ramón was created in Moguer.

In 1956, the cancer reappeared and in April and Zenobia started a treatment that would give her great burns. In the month of June, Zenobia flow to Boston for the purpose of being operated again, but the doctors told her not to have the operation and gave her only a few months to live...

Zenobia died on 28 October 1956, in Puerto Rico, three days after her spouse received the Nobel Prize for literature.

Juan Ramón Jiménez survived two more years, and today, they remain in Moguer, in the cemetery of Jesus." ~ Wikipedia

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