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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - Kim]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The secret love story of a bourgeois young lady comes to light at the Encants flea market.]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/culture/the-secret-love-story-of-bourgeois-young-lady-comes-to-light-at-the-encants-flea-market_1_5615031.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e7082e40-1f25-45ff-a30e-381a5c41b246_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x1814y582.jpg" /></p><p>"Today you turn thirty-six, Manolo, and as you can see, I remembered the date." Thus begins the diary that cartoonist Joaquim Aubert Puigarnau, Kim (Barcelona, ​​1941), bought in 2007 at a secondhand book stall in Barcelona's Encants flea market. "The handwriting caught my eye, very beautiful, and the fact that the author had given it to her love, a certain Manolo," he recalls. The cartoonist was captivated: instead of recording all sorts of vicissitudes, the diary focuses on a single love story that spans some twenty years. An impossible relationship, really: when they met, she was 19 and he was 35, married, and with two children. Moreover, Manolo soon moved to the Canary Islands, but she remained steadfast in her unconditional love, sustained only by a handful of letters, the occasional reunion, and, above all, false hopes. A story that reads like a novel but is tragically true, which Kim reveals to the comic book. <em>Miss Litgi's Diary</em> (Norma).</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Xavi Serra]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:00:53 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The cartoonist Kim at his home in Ullà.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The cartoonist Kim transforms into a graphic novel the diary that a girl wrote from 1938 to 1954]]></subtitle>
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