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We have bought some Broetchen
at the Bakery "Empire"

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and they gave us "Eugene's cakes",
big and round

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coming directly from the oven

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uneatable and pasty.

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Don't you remember?

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I can't hear you.

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Yes.

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Yes I remember.

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There were also some things that you
discovered on your own, it's true.

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There were some things
I know nothing about.

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Remember the Jew?

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The gardener who would become your friend?

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Remember going to the sea
and later on to the countryside?

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How it was hot.

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Menthe - the blessed one

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You don't mind that I call you Menthe.

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Still biting your fingernails, Menthe?

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Don't speak.

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Don't you ever wash yourself?

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You look like yourself.

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How is it possible to have
all these memories together?

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One year.

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It has been one year now.

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Back then, you didn't mind being called Menthe.

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I don't understand that.

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It seems like you've forgotten a lot.

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Your first night in Roissy,
you remember that, don't you?

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Yes. I came to take you with me.
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You don't want to?

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I can convince you...
show you some pictures.

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You'll remember then and you'll understand.

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Back then, you were dreaming
of us travelling.

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Together, towards the South.

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Remember that?

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We are in the North, place of golden thoughts
and of the great fear of death.

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You're still dreaming of pomegranates
and figs.

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One fine morning, you will wake up
in a foreign city.

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Once you told me the color of
your room made you hungry for ice cream

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with almonds and sour cream.

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Your request of ice cream was satisfied.

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and they said no for the coffee.
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I could tell you about bathroom's tiles,

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in the south.

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Its coolness.

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Like everywhere in the world.

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Once, you got sick.

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You wanted some light to see
if your shadow was still there.

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Back then, you were afraid of loosing it.

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Do you still have your shadow, Menthe?

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But healing is easy for the traveller.

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We go in Vichy for the liver,
in Mallety for the skin,

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and in Aix-les-bains for the heart.

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Why do we go in Roissy?

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What don't you want to understand?

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Did you fool another than yourself,
with your childish pride for the mark?
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Why on the loins?

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Because the initials had to be visible,
when one took on your only interesting entry?

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They used to say "Don't forget you must
never touch yourself"

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"when you're carrying your chains"
They called you "unchained".

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They offered you these blessed chains
that took you away from yourself.

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We asked

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"Do you open yourself well for the customer

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Without looking up to the face of your master?"

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You have difficulty in interpreting
what one tells you.

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Always.

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Think of what we have lived together.

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The boats...

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with sails.

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The straw hat that didn't fit us.

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The simple basin that composed our bathroom

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during our stay at the hotel.

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The game of cards that
we were too tired to finish.

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We all had our role to play.

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You prefer leaving this place.

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When I left, you gave me a little scarf.

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You asked me to wear it often.

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You're right.

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I should have worn it today.

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And I wore it.

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I assure you of that.

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I remember its story.

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It was an inherited object,
once soaked by the blood of an execution

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to bring good luck.
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You remember the plane but
not the man who piloted it.

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You remember the car and the driver's cap
but not the driver himself.

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Your friend says,

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"Take off your panties."

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"Don't sit on your skirt nor on your slip."

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"Put you yourself directly
onto the seat's moleskine."

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And you felt it, cold and smooth

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as it was sticking on your thighs.

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"Menthe," he says,

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"You don't need your bag any more.
We are going in Roissy."

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But Menthe...

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What is Roissy compared to our frienship,

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to the things we have lived together,

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to the trips we planned...

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to the south...

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across the sea.

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When you were fifteen,

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you wanted a necklace like
the one you saw me wearing

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with the same little faces attached.

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Later, when we met in Roissy,
you tought:

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No one needs to teach her anything

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Nor to be quiet

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Nor to keep hands open on her side

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Or to tip her head half back.

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This autumn in Roissy.

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The desire of elsewhere was boiling
in each pore of your skin.

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You don't want to admit it.

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I know it.

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You'd say to me,

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"Why letting a crowd that we hate
manage us,

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If we can submit to the one we love
and respect."

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Back then, I was naive.

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I accepted you at face value.

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But you were not being sincere, Menthe.

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You knew so well how to lie.

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Do you remember when you needed to break
every picture representing yourself?

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Do you remember how you hurt yourself?

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Your scars...

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Do you still have them?

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You asked that one sew you some new clothes,

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So that no place on your body
would be inaccessible.

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What is necessary that you go
at the corset-maker, bare breasts under the blouse or jacket?

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Yes, you had to go this way
at your corset-maker.

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Do you remember apples that
the storm had brought down of trees?

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"Is it terrestrial food now?" did you ask.

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Do you remember the narrow door?

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But the narrow door, it was you.

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Your opening was too narrow.

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An opening that you have in common with men.

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You had to wear a stick in the anus.

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In shape of an erected penis,

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hung to three tiny chains that
were tied to a leather-belt

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which you wore around the loins.

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Menthe, do you remember that?

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You have to focus on what I'm telling you.
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Think of me.

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Oh, Menthe,

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you are simply adorable.

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Do not moan.

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Do not beg.

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Do not ask for grace or forgiveness
when they were whipping you.

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And you'd scream and weep.

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You'd beg for grace and forgiveness.

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You'd try to kiss their hands
at the first whiplash.

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They'd say to you,

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"Just five minutes more."

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"You have to bear five minutes, Menthe."

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There were some days when you let
people depilate you,

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and when you could wear your nice bolero.
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There were other days when the make-up
on nipples and on the labium

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couldn't be dark enough

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and where the whip left you some stripes,
long and beautiful that didn't vanish easily.

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Do you remember your headaches?

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What you'd catch when the weather was muggy.

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Try to drink a bit of this.

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Here, now it doesn't hurt so bad.

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In Roissy, none of your openings
belongs to you.

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You are at disposal.

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But did you think that the sentence

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"to open up to somebody" could mean another thing?

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Did you think of what it could also mean?

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Feel the love.

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Ah Menthe...
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I know I can call you this way.

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Do you remember the Englishman's
collection of dead insects?

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Do you remember then, when he'd grab you
to open you up,

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and you'd think you were a fish on the market.

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He explained his taste for habits and rituals.

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"<i>And besides</i>," he said to you,

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"<i>I'm fond of habits and rights.</i>"

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Do you remember the hair of the girl
dead in the current?

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Once, you were frightened of the big forests.

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You were frightened of mountains
and of what made them threatening.

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Your eyes beg me to stop sinking into memories.

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All of that comes back to me now like shadows.

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The Jew you called your friend
has never had and will never have a friend.

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And Menthe,

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did you ever doubt?

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I know you doubted.

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Don't you get it?
You had nobody but me.

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I learned better.

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We learned better.

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I have something for you.

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Hold on.

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I am just teasing you.

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I am just teasing you.

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Across the sea, towards the South,
fruits are sweet.

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No more cold apples from the North.

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We walk together in the gardens

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Bathe in the ponds, play in the fountains.

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The ports we are going to visit
are full of strange people and goods.

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We are going to visit some castles.
No fortress.

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Eat fish and never meat.

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And still more to the South

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Where the ground is red, so red

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and where sand is white
with disintegrated corals

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and where our eyes will become brown

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and in the morning when the sea

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the lover withdrew

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We can look into the reef, naked,
follow it during hours

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the small confused fishes into puddles,
that didn't escape in time.

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We find snails and shells
that we have to bury into the sand

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To come dig them up later
When they became clean and shiny.

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It's funny to look at the crabs,
a bit slow, vanishing into their holes.

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On the streets, native people sell their goods.

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They spread a large piece of
multicolored material on the ground.

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And they also have some shells

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Much bigger than those we could find.

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At noon, it's too hot to work.

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We take seats in the veranda

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We are crowned with red and blue flowers
which we still don't know the names.

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And around the house, we can pick limes and bananas.

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We meet the peculiar people who live here.

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Menthe...

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Think of the blacks.

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It is possible that everything
you just did made you feel good...

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and I am happy about that...

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but I am not Menthe...

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My name is not Menthe...

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and I'm not your spice.

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I'm not going to talk to you about
the security which consists

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in putting one's self
at the discretion of someone...

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nor about the one you're waiting for
and who is already there...

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already master...

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then who we expect...

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you know that...

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that I know.

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You once said to me:

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"It's terrifying to fall
into the hands of a living God."

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but I believe it's even worse
being rejected by that living God.

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Those whom he loves and whom
he abandons in obscurity
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are guilty and sinful
because they are abandonned...

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may the miracle last..

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may the grace never disappear...

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When we die,

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our soul ascend into heaven
like a great white bird.