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I know you miss your father. In a few days, he will be back from the campaign and you can help me organize the party for his return. We will order a banquet, we’ll hire dancers and courtesans, [...]

My mother was born in another country on the northern side of the sea, over there. I wish I could have visited, but she never wanted to go back, she did not even like to be asked. She said she [...]

  Their thighs and shoulders showed under their torn garments, their skin burned by the sun. It didn’t worry them. Mama would say, don’t look. At eleven, you are not a child anymore. Come sit [...]

Yes, they were happy, why do you ask? My father spoiled my mother while you could hardly have called her a beauty, all yellow and skinny. My grandmother protected the best she could our [...]

   Grandmother was not kind to anyone except for me. She did not know one has to be nice, because she came from far away lands. I have her narrow eyes, her thick hair, which remained black until [...]

She did everything well, whether embroidering, spinning, weaving, or mixing perfumes. She was beautiful, tall, always elegant. From her slender hands turned out only exquisite works. We were slow [...]

Now look carefully. I use two shuttles or more, if I want to interweave more than two colors. At first, when you learn, you use two shuttles at most, you can change the threading later in the [...]

      My mother was a child when the island was taken. A ship arrived announcing that all the men were to be executed, the women and children sold into slavery. But at the last moment, a second [...]

My father had the most beautiful wife on the island. Her black hair was thick and silky, her eyes bright, her teeth pearly. She never went out, Papa said we did not need her to tend the animals [...]

Careful. You hurt me. Slide the comb underneath and start from below the hair line, it pulls less. I must have told you a thousand times.  

           When you were born, my sister taught me how to nurse you. If the baby does not feed well, it will not survive. See how I put the nipple in your little brother’s mouth for him to [...]