Thinking about her life                                         

                                                                             

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Mrs Tamarind is thinking about her life, and doesn't want a visitor. She says silently, "Go away, you silly woman. Can't you see I'm busy thinking. And remembering.

 

"Unless you have something interesting to say, leave me be. I want to make sense of the whole story.

"Of Guido. Jessie. Billy and Mandy. The people I've loved. In my own way, I suppose.

 

"Start with Guido. First love. Nothing you can do about that. A clutch in the stomach. Shivers. Wanting. Technicolor living. I threw it away. Broke his heart, they said.

 

How was I to know? 

 

Then Billy and Mandy - my best loves, children of my heart. Was it Fromm who said 'Our children are honoured guests in a family.'   That was true for sure for Billy and Mandy.

 

Now... Billy gone, and Mandy..."

 

As she is telling herself the story, trying to make it truthful, she hears someone coming up to her. Mrs Tamarind opens her eyes and sees someone standing beside her. Nice-looking girl. Quite like Mandy when she was young. She's something to do with that tiresome woman who comes visiting - Jeannette.

 

The girl says, "Hello, Mrs Tamarind," in a reluctant voice.

 

                                                                                                                about Erich Fromm

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