Trafika Europe 14 - Italian Piazza

A Perfect Idiot

of discrimination. In these cases, the social workers divided the expenses among themselves in order to continue to keep them. The average cost for each chi ld, for the French state, was a hundred euros a day. Running a place l ike the one in L’Escarène could cost thirty thousand euros a month. The social workers, therefore, weren’t completely stupid, on the contrary, if I’d remained up there longer with them, I’d have learned a lot more things concerning the laws and regulations on adoption. At least enough in order not to do what I was about to do. But this, Mel i , whi le she sat in the car with Morel to go the appointment with those certain emirs of Qatar, didn’t even imagine. For her, Odette was l ike a daughter, she had many doubts about her adoptive fami ly, a series of unjustified doubts because they contradicted al l the exemplary certificates that her new daddy and mommy had suppl ied. A- Trenta -Met r i - Svo l ta re -A-Des t ra - Po i -Ar r i vo -A- Destinazione. “You ready?” Morel asked with some anxiety. It ’s obvious it ’s not a simple aperitif, Mel i deduced, as calm as though she were the director of the Plaza Hotel. In her bel ly, instead, there was a stew of powerful and uncharted emotions.

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