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Forever Stay

by Raquel Dawn Trigo

100 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); contains color photos; catalogue #05-2254; ISBN 1-4120-7358-8; US$13.50, C$15.52, EUR11.09, £7.76

Simply, poignantly written, sincere and forthright as the personal diary of a young woman's journey into womanhood, Forever Stay beckons us towards that "sacred, honest, pure place" in our hearts.

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Forever Stay is a posthumous collection of heartfelt poems, dreams, and visions from the pen of Raquel Dawn Trigo (1982-2004). The writings, "visuals of my soul" as she described them, span the brief timeline of her journey from childhood to teenage adolescence, from young womanhood to maturity. They reflect a rainbow of different inspirations and influences. Some are quite innocent and straightforward, while others are more thoughtful and contemplative. From love sonnets and idyllic dreams so typical of many young girls, to deeper subjects and yearnings that reflected a maturity tempered by her own battles with depression, her love of the land (and sea), her appeals and battle-cry for the meek and downtrodden, her unwavering belief in God, and, always, an affection and tenderness for children and their innocence. Her later writings, oftentimes mystical and dream-like, herald the pains and struggles of common people everywhere, and her mention of fatalistic subjects must be placed in the context of some one who, in daily life, refused to burden anyone with her own problems or issues.

We have compiled the poems as chronologically as possible beginning with her earliest poems written as a young girl from about age 13 to 16; continuing with the second chapter written in her late teens, and concludes with the third chapter written over the last three years of her life.

Throughout all of her writings there remains, like an isolated rock that rises defiantly on the distant horizon, the central theme of her basic goodness and inherent caring nature that had no boundary and never surrendered.

-Tom & Linda Trigo

"And though I am gone,
see my visions,
not my tears.
Hear my laughter,
not my cries.
Feel my love,
not my loneliness,
Think of my dreams,
Not my troubles."
- RDT

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About the Author

Raquel Dawn Trigo was born in a natural home birth on July 19, 1982, in the bedroom of a modest wood frame house on a tree-lined street in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was raised, and lived most of her life, in and around Charlottesville, Virginia. She was home taught for much of her upbringing, but also attended public schools at different times in her life. In her brief lifetime she was blessed to have been able to travel widely throughout this beautiful land called America, particularly across the High Plains, the Rockies, the Desert Southwest but also across borders; around her twentieth birthday she walked along the shoreline of a sparkling blue lake in Quebec, and as a ten year old she gathered quartz in a rugged canyon of the Sierra Madre of Mexico. She was always collecting mementos on these travels, things that most folks might not see the value of; a rusted iron spike from an abandoned railroad bed near Charlotte Court House, Virginia; a rattler she cut off from a dead western diamondback along a remote highway near San Marcial, New Mexico; a pine cone from a dark grove of trees in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. Her sense of wonder and exploration were the natural offshoot of a heart that cared so much for others. She departed this world unexpectedly on a warm, spring day in May of 2004; she was just 21 years of age.

Raquel aspired to succeed in various artistic endeavors, including; acting, film production, designing her own line of clothing and jewelry, making handicrafts, and cosmetology, but her greatest passion was channeled into music, literature, and poetry.

She always had a strong work ethic, took pride in being able to pay her own way wherever she went, and was unabashedly more comfortable hanging out with the blue collar rather than the ivory-tower crowd. In 2001, she worked on the motion picture Gods And Generals, as a Location Assistant, for which she received a screen credit. She also did production work on several commercials and television productions. As a young girl, she appeared as an extra in Lassie, Sommersby, and Major Payne. In 2003 she scouted locations for a short, independent film, The Kindness Of Strangers, an assignment that took her over much of the upper Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a rural area of rolling hills and small creeks that she knew and loved deeply.

Her love of nature and her compassion for animals was reflected in all of her pursuits. Her spirit lives on through dozens of poems, song lyrics, story ideas, sketchings, photos that she took in her travels; and in the many warm, wonderful memories of her that we, the living, will carry with us until the end of our days.

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