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*LE PROJET IMAGINE
*MARIE SOPHIE L ACTRESS
It's not even that someone gave me a hand,
more like two arms ! Arms that thought they had no energy,
but in fact they did.
It's Dominique Pastor,
a friend who, one day, when I was in great difficulty
because I had to leave Thonon-les-Bains
where I had lived for 8 years,
to move back to Paris...
and there was very little time.
I had to move a whole house,
with four children
aged 4 to 14
who all did sports and had accumulated all sorts of equipment,
the way you do when you live in places
where you ski, sail, ride bicycles,
sports, where you're outdoors most of the time.
I had to move very fast, give the house back quickly,
and get to Paris quickly.
I was totally crushed.
I didn't know where to begin.
The whole thing of sorting,
throwing things out, the dust, the mess,
all those objects,
with children who couldn't really help me except for the eldest,
Sabaya, who helped me a great deal too.
And I was totally helpless, didn't really dare ask for help
because I know it's horrible to help someone
with their mess, their dust,
their horrible old things.
And a friend of mine called and said she was coming to help me.
And I said, no way, not you.
This friend lives in Monaco,
so she doesn't have much vacation.
She had to request an additional day to get a longer week-end.
She also has health problems,
heart problems.
She can't do sports,
and driving from Monaco to Thonon les Bains
in a horrible old car
that makes a horrible noise when you going at 110 km/h,
and you think it's going to fall apart.
So I said this is stupid, it isn't rational.
"You musn't do it. You can pray for me.
"We'll do something, but do not come."
And she said : "I'm coming". and in fact
she was already in her car.
And an hour later she called me to ask me where I live,
because, she says: "Here I am."
She was already in Thonon.
This was such a burst of joy in my heart.
We went out with the kids.
It's ok, I don't mind.
This gratitude that just... these are tears of joy.
We came out of the house to welcome Dominique, and there...
And she came in her little in her shaky little car.
There was... The four children were there.
There was a cloud of bats.
For me this was a very positive creature.
A cloud of bats like I had never seen before.
We saw 2 or 3 nesting in the house,
and for us this was really a very good sign.
And then, a cloud... And we ran towards Dominique,
with incredible joy: we were floating in bats.
We didn't know where the sky began and the earth ended,
there were so many.
None of the children were afraid.
And in this cloud, we went to welcome Dominique.
And then, it was 2 days and 2 nights of non-stop work.
And what should have been a major ordeal
in fact became an opportunity for sharing, for joy.
Then Dominique had to leave,
after two days
of helping out so generously, and
I felt so strengthened, so supported, that everything else seemed easy.
So Dominique,
I thank you for having come from Monaco.
That was totally unreasonable,
crazy,
and it was incredibly precious for me.
Extremely precious, and I thank you, really.
It was just pure love,
that I can still feel.
Thank you.
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