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Every week, a reader chronicles a favorite, today a story of a mill and a long friendship.
I had just gotten angry with one of my best friends. He made painful reproaches to me. I was looking for gift ideas for Christmas and I knew I would find what I was looking for in my neighborhood bookstore. A little book caught my attention: it spoke of friendship. They say that books can console. Or at least show that others have gone through what you endure, help you understand a dramatic event, raw emotions. After a bereavement, I was advised something black by Jacques Roubaud or Grief diary by Roland Barthes. It’s a fact: we feel less alone. I took Marielle Macé’s for my own use, alongside the packages wrapped by the bookseller, these were for mes others.
When I got home, I opened Ô mes amie.es ! This is a conference that the author gave in front of children in September 2023. The beginning seemed hesitant and tedious to me. She says, it’s difficult “to talk about this attachment; we often remain a little evasive, we protect our feelings, we
