I would like to think my father loved me too - overcoming his disappointment and finding in care, worry and protectiveness enough to stoke his feelings. I survived, thanks to the care of doctors and the love of my mother. They are athletic, good looking parents, but they have birthed him, a delicate child they must keep from the jaws of death. He notices his mother's silences, his father's sadness. A haunting story of a boy who senses something held back from him from those around him, it is post-war Paris, he is an only child who imagines he has a make-believe brother, and he sees things from his perspective as well as his own, fights with him even.
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