Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer
Joy
prestigious titles and, after a few reminders of dates, asks him what he remembers about me. The doctor responds that he sees a considerable amount of patients and families, over a large number of years, and I ask myself if he clearly remembers me. He adds that it seems to him that I was his interlocutor and that I was probably the best for it because the other members of the family were too affected. I search for my father’s eyes without finding him, his eyes are lowered, maybe even closed. The judge asked logically to the doctor if, in his opinion, I was less bothered than the others, than my father or my brother for example. The doctor responds that he said nothing of that sort, that he cannot decide on that and repeats that he has seen a lot of patients and their families
you could definitely see it this way, but things didn’t happen like that, that I had asked Ange, and this wasn’t the first time, to loan me money and that Ange was a friend. This was another way to respond to her: even if I asked Ange to go settle a score with Rédoine, I wouldn’t have had to pay him for it. Because, precisely, he was a friend. The doctor just got up to the stand and I see him again announcing the death of my mom, I remember that he used the word “deceased” and that I had told myself that that was not a good word. It was too violent of a word, there were a lot of other ones he could’ve used. The judge of the court thanked him for being available insisting on his 6
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