I find the photo in the attic, hidden at the bottom of an old trunk, under clothes, books, memories, things she wanted to keep, she wanted to hide, she wanted to forget, perhaps, but which she could not throw away, could not burn, could not erase, could not annihilate, because it was too much, too much truth, too much memory, too much proof, too much of everything, and I take it, I turn it over, I look at it, and I see, I see a woman, a woman who resembles me, who has my eyes, my hair, my smile, my way of holding her head, of looking at the lens, of being there, of being alive, of being herself, and she is holding in her arms a baby, a six-month-old baby, laughing, smiling, living, who is me, me at six months, me in the arms of my mother, my real mother, Viviane, and on the back of the photo, handwriting, handwriting I don't know, handwriting that trembled, that hesitated, that cried perhaps, while writing these words, these words I read, I reread, I can't let go of
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