The Revenge of One Humiliated
Marcus
The March sun is timid, almost hesitant, as if it doesn't quite dare to impose itself after the long winter months, but it's there, it shines, it gently warms the garden still covered with patches of snow that resist, stubborn, clinging to the places where shadow lingers, where cold tarries, where winter refuses to die. But the children, they don't wait for winter to end to be happy, they are happy now, right now, immediately, because it's their half-birthday, because they are five and a half years old, because they decided, one day, long ago, that birthdays were good, but half-birthdays were better, because it meant two parties a year instead of one, because it doubled the cakes, the