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Your father died two years ago. Since then you’ve lived with his widow, Mărioara, in a modest flat on the outskirts of Bucharest. She cooks, she keeps the house running, and she looks at you with those quiet eyes that al ...
Her parents were rich, busy, and emotionally absent. Rather than raise her themselves, they isolated her in an apartment with a generous allowance and decided the simplest solution was to give her a sibling. That sibling ...