Aline was my sister‘s best friend. She was small, my sister (Viviane) was very tall in comparison and the two of them were always a pair in sports events at school. One exercise was to run together in one canvas bag, and jump along like kangaroos, holding a spoon with an egg and trying to win the race. They giggled so much, they could hardly keep that stupid spoon and the difference in height didn‘t help either and… they never won.
They were our Alexandria version of Laurel and Hardy!
Aline would terrorise Vera Cordahi and me. She tried to make us dig for worms, cutting them up and eating them. Since she had an older brother and sister who were not particularly nice to her, she found in us the perfect victims.
But she was the one who told me all about the birds and the bees and saw to it that I understood how babies were produced. When it came to schoolgirl sexuality, she caught me when I had just finished reading „Desiree“ (Napoleon’s first fiancée whom he dropped once he met Josephine), a book I read at least 10 times when I was eleven years old. Then she asked me whether I knew what a mistress was and I had no idea. She asked again if I knew the role Josephine had played in Napoleon’s life. All I could think of is the famous scene in her salon, where Desiree threw a glass of champagne on Josephine’s cream colored beautiful dress…Aline persisted and managed to corner me in the patio at school and then she started to tell me all the details, the gory ones and the nicer ones. I shall never forget that lesson…
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