A letter from Jul 26, 2022

Peaceful right?

Hi! How are you doing? It’s yourself writing, but from the past! Right now it’s July 26th, 2022, 11:35pm. You’re 14 years old. You’re on holidays in Paris. Remember? You wanted to visit the city you were born in, and where you used to live. And you wanted to make your mother happy. It’s been almost ten years since she has left her city. The city where she was born and where she lived for almost 40 years! She never left it until ten years ago, and you thought going there on holidays would make her happy. Guess what? You weren’t mistaken! About your holidays, you visited the japanese library you wanted to, it was wonderful, and, on top of that, you were FINALLY able to see the Music Museum and first and foremost, the Conservatoire of Paris! Even if the buildings aren’t that beautiful, seeing them made you so happy! After all, it was your dream to one day be able to join it! About that, how is music going? If everything’s going normally, you should be in Lyon Conservatoire, 3rd cycle now! Or maybe you’ve finished it? It would be very surprising and unexpected, but, who knows? Life is full of surprises and unknown things! But I hope you haven’t given up on music again! I’m sure you won’t do that. Because you remember how painful it was the first time and how much you regretted it, you won’t do that a second time. I trust you on that. So, about Paris. Do you still want to go there? Maybe you have other plans? I don’t think you would want to go to Lyon National Conservatoire if you had the choice, but maybe you want to study in England, not only work there? Right now I really want to study in Paris, but, again, who knows? About the music prepa, what are you going to do? Paris or Lyon? If you remember correctly, you wanted to go to Paris right after your graduation. Oh wait… I forgot THE most important thing! Did you pass baccalaureate? Were you able to get in the high school you wanted to? You know, you wanted to change schools in 11th grade. Did you do it? And about what your friends/family/relatives wanted to do, did Ethan apply for Versailles Architecture School? Where did Ewann went for his chef studies? Were you finally able to meet Solene, Précy and Ewi? Do your sister Léna still want to do fashion studies? And by the way, is she still learning oboe? Does she still like it? There are so many questions I want to ask, but anyway, I have to stop. With my whole affection, Charlyne from 2022

Epilogue

about 9 hours later

Hello, my dear dear 14 year old self,

It is nice hearing from you after 3 years. So much has changed, so much unexpected things happened… things you would’ve liked,...

Oyu inhsgt evowd’ul not. .
Wko,n lcffitiud to tyic uyo pnaerripg duse…tsi ouy wne tcpexe a eneb for ot ahs bt,u oru evmo lfei em be nokw ot i. Ot t1h1 ahd aepter erdga i. For saw ti fr,ea eht wotrs bset utb uoyr onkw i asw ti. Baeeucs ot in tkea swa ytxiane hcloos too umhc. So you was to yuo nwe it tedawn elwl ohlsco eht ogdo egva a go ead,i ton ghih o…t pu. Ocen it i even rtdetgeer eoynthsl renve. Thsi gahcnde ayer, shlocso od ti buaot hnganyit ucaebse i i ’tlucdon ylon. Esisus edma in iwth a oolsch hscolo dkis hitw ratleed aniyxet a ’weer for dna calss to onw payslicifecl socloh. Otnd’ eraf wen e’vew coolsh rnae,oym nda srndife daem we. Velo i’m oluy’l ominé,e orwry ntdo’ seru. .
B,oj ’ntwo i utgohh it lltis be ym i…ucsm aubot i eakm i,t vene tdn’o afdira inucteond. Of rmedeeembr hcum veag m,iet isht trsif but hhgi of to… elats up tsih os im,te i em lsat i ryea do a enev for nto a adwnte atwn umics tdegerrte i ggivni rlaeyl htough pu rpta at ddi nddeei i slcooh hwo ot.
Eth evy’uo deasps raaultccebaea chfner. A y!lltlbnaiir yera tsyuloleab het sirft itme mxae atsl dan uyo a n,fie entwitr was 120/6 e…no dpssae 02/9 …lewl tiwh utb lora. Heay so. .
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…èneosl and ,wie let btoau meht dnow ,éyprc smolty ouy. I htkin but… ’im olt, tmeh lslti kame buota pu csreda i to a dna to antw ti. Ucmh oto.
Me,na uy’eov bste btu and ruyo oelna eclsteé rfesndi i rednsfi! new, pcudtenexe dema rae. How wnko you tyeh tnod’ knwo aer i. Fo onela a asw dgaer, onw cemô mane ni eth kid h10t eséctle new is nda. Otn uocdte narldo,l. Envre ewkn ’tstha yuo knaid idk be!orfe reahd baotu ti hes et,eisxd sey, but oyu hte. Olev temh we. So wiht drsefin eenb rneev pypha e’wve nda. Neetr ot now vsrintyeiu yerte’h ogngi. ,away feni, sesh’ at ni se’sh celstée ni elnoa es…tyro ityansg ppy!ha lliw si onyl laset btu arf eb.
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Odelub to a eactcedp eb atoub nerosobn higpno mplidoa in nda in hlyoooicool/shyippsg we’er teh uufr…te eorblcha. Ujts or cilsoyogo. Too rohys,it n,lgihse ip,isoclt giu,nsislitc atr,tiereul ocol be epjaeasn wdolu.
Ofudn apisson trhgi cmenai wno fro wne oyv’ue uesyorfl a. Utittsni to svmoie vleo or tfielaubu uyo issro,te slblyoaeut teh iumerlè 2 ,yad oyu a nnhseisu !it ’veyuo odunf mtesi smeo won enbe ****** ewf ikel tleyal gawtnhci mssi a esiroemm iletlt and and fo tnwe.
Wita teh tcna’ rfo ealt ni suntietit to agsut!u re-peon.
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L,ietctyaaeffno.
Orfm nhcryael ldo 17 2052 reda royu raye.
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A a year eu’oyr leik dnfuo evo’uy sl,neaib ps: gao tuo tmnohsgie. ’ntsi aye!s saywla othhgu cipcenatg ti neve ti efsel teteb,r.
Itrhg lrea iatw rife si p2s: iton ot efil nloeysht t’acn ,now acitivsm teg emos ldowr no.

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