I don’t have a lot of memories of my childhood playing together with other children.
Maybe, it is because my mother wanted us, my brother and me, to be around her when we came back from school.
Maybe, she was feeling so lonely at home when we were at school and she was happy to have company when school was off.
She was upset when I spent the whole afternoon on my bed in my room reading books.
She wasn’t happy when I brought my friend with me and when we were knitting pullovers and drinking tea during our free afternoons on Wednesdays.
I should have been my mom’s unique friend.
What a destiny: Being born for replacing her difficult childhood during World War II by a happy motherhood.