TE17 Mysterious Montenegro

Catherine the Great and the Small

“Thereyou have it. Yourmothercouldn’t bear living any longer. Who can bear living when cancer takes over your brain?” She went to her rest. The others repeat this, they realize this phrase is the wisest possible thing to say. I liked better what Marijeta’s mother said to me, as if imparting a secret: Let the dead bury the dead. I didn’t understand death; until then death was just a part of the fairytales I read. In fairytales, mothers die at the beginning of the story, nothing is explained. Then the step-motherenters the life of the heroine, and no words are wasted on the death of the mother. The mother dies in childbirth and that’s that, on with the story.

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