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entertainment">Martine died in May 2019 at the age of 71 from complications of a brain haemorrhage that struck her in 2015. “We have been together for almost 30 years. A huge indulgence, although that may be a bit of a strange word to use,” said 85-year-old Boudewijn about that period.
entertainment">“That lack of someone is a bit like taking a final exam. You constantly feel something in your stomach. That’s permanent, but every now and then it’s like being a cow lost in the pasture and running into electric fences,” he described his grief.
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entertainment">Boudewijn encounters that moment of shock when he just encounters “a photo or a thing” of her. Then there is the immediate realization that she is no longer there. “Then it is suddenly: oh yes, that is hers. She is gone. And then it’s like running into an electric fence. And you never know where that electric fence is.”
entertainment">The book was published last week Of This And That And Of Everything with texts, diary fragments and letters by Bijl. Boudewijn selected all texts.
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