Hood

Ça fait longtemps :) As I progressed in my reflections, I saw that I was avoiding writing to you or your parents out of a fear of imposition. But I am in an imposing mood, so a funny secret I want to get off my chest is that I often write stories with your parents in mind! So many of the characters I create are taken from one short summer stay. We never got to speak one on one, so I never got to say that your parents were my awakening to seeing how things could be in a family. I am sure nothing is ever perfect, but when I was seventeen the experience of living in your childhood home on 29e avenue gave me the bravery to ask more from life. The generosity and compassion your family showed me, and its place in my small mental universe, shall stay with me to the end of my days. I wonder, how have you and your parents been? I recall that Sylvie went up north, but have no further knowledge of your family's story after that.