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"Eternity"
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Arthur and Julie Bourgeois had five daughters.
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Two of them died young.
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The other three,
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Helene, Henriette and Valentine,
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were duly married.
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Valentine!
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At seventeen, Valentine was engaged to Jules,
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at his father's request.
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Upon reflection, the engagement was broken off.
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But Jules was in love and persistent
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and therefore got his way.
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Jules was pure of heart.
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Valentine was an instinctive judge of character
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and loved him to his dying day,
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and hers.
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Less than two years later, Adrien arrived.
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He was as calm and careful
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as his brothers were rowdy and distracted.
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In this houseful of men,
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Valentine sometimes caught herself
imagining a baby girl.
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She came at last.
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They named her Margaux,
after Jules's grandmother.
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Valentine loved her to distraction.
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She shared more with Margaux from the start,
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the first fruits of a bond of blood and womanhood.
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"You'll grow up, get married and have children
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but nothing will change
the sweetness of being together,
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you and I," thought Valentine.
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Teatime, children!
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Elisabeth brought Valentine yet more fulfillment.
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Valentine's life was ordained
to begin on a perfect arc,
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then slowly decay.
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All that she won would be
taken away and destroyed.
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She had her first taste of
grief three years before her marriage ended
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The 7th child lived for only a day.
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For a few hours, he was called Etienne
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You'll have other children.
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Efienneu.
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We never got to know him.
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We had no time to love him.
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"Only a man can talk like that," she thought.
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She remembered the vain wait,
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the long months of dreaming...
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and now this hollow in her arms.
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A missing weight.
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A hole of warmth, absent.
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Valentine and Jules's marriage
lasted twenty summers.
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Pierre was born
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and Jules died a year later.
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His memory was always there, engraved in her.
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Its vividness would sometimes turn her pale.
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She never lost the pain of knowing he was dead,
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nor the joy of loving him.
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Saddened by the prospect of a barren,
loveless future,
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Valentine braced herself.
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She had only her children to cosset her now.
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Jules had sown himself in each of them.
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She glimpsed him in them.
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The twins were shy,
as young men without women are.
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They would soon be plucked and cast into the soil
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but nobody knew it.
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Neither they nor Valentine,
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who wished to perfect them,
unaware that it was pointless,
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unaware that no woman
would swell from their embrace.
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"NOTICE OF DEATH"
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Valentine never knew
how their faces looked in death.
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Elisabeth, Margaux. Come here.
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Open the door, Margaux.
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I'm such a scatterbrain!
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Mother...
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Yes, darling?
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And that night,
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keeping lone vigil over her child,
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Valentine saw clearly what awaited her
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A long life watching others go,
unable to restrain them.
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This time again, she fell asleep unwillingly,
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to recover a strength she no longer wanted,
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but which was in her.
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You cheated!
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Elisabeth!
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Mother...
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Would you like to be a grandmother?
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Is there someone you love?
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You know her.
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Mathilde!
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Yes.
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I often dared to hope for this.
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I'm very happy.
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Come for a bike ride?
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Now?
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Yes.
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All right.
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Hold my fingers.
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Shut your eyes.
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The engagement was small and private.
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In a strange new way,
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the pain of losing a child pierced Valentine again.
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Mother...
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I've made a decision.
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I ask you to respect it.
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I want to be a nun.
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Are you sure?
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After Christmas, I'll be going.
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Give it more thought.
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Her daughter would be childless.
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The thought drilled into her.
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In the room,
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only Valentine could see that
a female line was being broken
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and that a childless woman
lacks the most devastating side of life.
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Margaux kept to her decision.
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This strong-willed, secretive girl
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was leaving her loved ones to embrace,
pure and naked,
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the austerity of prayer
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She longed to show her daughter
what she was giving up,
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to tell her that a man's love
is less distracted than God's
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Her body, all flux and shifting shapes,
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became the object of her daydreaming.
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She watched it change before her eyes.
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When she washed and dried and perfumed it,
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she felt as if her gestures
now meant something different.
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Mathilde wanted to tell Henri
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that this was the easiest, least important time
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After it, everything still remained to be built,
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or at least not broken.
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She thought about it all...
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their future nights together,
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the lovemaking,
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the children that would come,
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the meals they would share, the two of them,
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indefinitely face to face,
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the women he might desire who would not be her,
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the things she would dislike about him.
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Henri was not an easy husband.
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He had a passionate, yet stiff disposition,
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combined with a liking for peace and quiet,
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which, if thwarted,
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could make him brusque and even sharp.
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Good evening.
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Henri and Mathilde saw Gabrielle
and Charles every day.
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As they lived in the same building
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it was easy to pop up
or downstairs for a ritual daily chat.
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Mathilde felt she had a real friend in Gabrielle
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and Gabrielle returned to her in equal measure
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this exclusive bond,
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woven since childhood
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and marked by their first taste
of a sweetness in life.
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Their mothers were sisters
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whom widowhood had gradually
brought close enough again
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to share a flat.
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Look, Mathilde!
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I found some more.
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Gabrielle gave birth to a girl,
whom they christened Solange.
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Mathilde was the godmother, naturally.
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She was pregnant herself
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and eager to discover her own baby
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as she held her friend's at the font.
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When Jules was born,
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Mathilde felt herself come to life, too.
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The baby made her
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and gave her a place in the vast unknown.
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Are you happy?
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Yes.
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Why do you ask?
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Because I'm happy and I want you to be, too.
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Charles and Gabrielle's
first meeting is worth describing.
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Their marriage had been arranged
and was settled over lunch.
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Have faith.
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Charles...
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is a brilliant engineer and a gentleman.
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You will love him.
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You know why we're here?
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Yes.
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I know.
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And do you approve?
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Yes.
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Good evening.
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- Madam and Sir are in the bedroom.
- Thank you.
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Yes?
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Hello.
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Nobody knows what they talked about.
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They're all dead now.
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But they were together in a bedroom,
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which was unusual for them, in those days.
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I think I'll be destroyed
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when the first person I love dies.
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I don't think so.
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After her fifth child,
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Mathilde had a second miscarriage.
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But one year later,
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to her amazement, she nursed her first daughter,
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Louise.
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I'll come back to see how he's doing.
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Hello, Charles.
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All right, Frangois?
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Mother...
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And so she stayed until the dawn became the day.
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And as the daylight bloomed outside,
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he suddenly seemed still and heavy
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She knew he would soon be taken from her.
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The time to give him up was near.
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Frangois?
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Frangois?
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"Dinner menu:"
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"stuffed tomatoes"
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"pancakes with..."
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Mother?
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And then it was over.
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She pulled herself up,
even straighter than before.
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And when she bent down to one of her children,
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it was with a grace that quivered from her wound.
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A year later, Margaux died in her convent cell
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of meningitis, just like Frangois.
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Margaux had given Him her youth and life,
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but God gave her no time to see her mother again.
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You know...
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at every moment,
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I can feel in my hands
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the size of their fragile shoulders,
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the depth of their chests,
the frailty of their arms...
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They're warm and soft as silk.
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With their small bodies
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and sweet faces,
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they can build ideas
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and form sentences that delight me.
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I know the exact colour of their hair,
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the shapes of their bodies...
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the tint
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that rings their tired eyes.
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Each day,
I touch the perfect skin that they all have.
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Get washed, children!
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What's wrong, Gabrielle?
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