What was I doing watching baseball with Robert Redford?
Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- The columnist recalls speaking with Robert Redford and watching a baseball game with him at Ebbets Field.
- He reflects on how memory, imagination and personal storytelling shape the way people preserve the past.
Long after it happened, I learned that Robert Redford had died. At one point, I spoke with him. In fact, we watched a baseball game together at Ebbets Field, the former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers before the team moved to Los Angeles.
The memory opens a reflection on the way age and events can become confused. Things are not always as they are, or as they ought to be, but as people want them to be, or as circumstances make convenient.
That improbable meeting with Redford becomes a meditation on memory, imagination and the stories each person decides to keep.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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