Agathe's Summer by Didier Pourquery

Author:Didier Pourquery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

How to explain to her that in and out of all these years, despite all the blows, flings, and hesitations, she remained the anchor of my existence? How to tell her without sounding pathetic that she was always my compass? The part of me, untouchable, that kept me afloat during the moments of deepest depression.

That summer I went away to Cassis, on the Mediterranean, with my new partner and her son. It was the first time I’d ever vacationed there. I had the strange feeling that I was playing a part—that of the summer tourist and fiancé, lover without roots, so far from my girls, the whole reinforced by the picture-perfect postcard views for Parisians out enjoying themselves. What was I doing there? I was a man from Gascogne feeling out of sorts in the surrounding scrublands, aioli, and cicadas. I was drifting.

One night I had a long dream. Agathe was driving me to my birthplace, the Gironde. She drove fast and well. We passed through beautiful villages, and she knew them all by name. We were driving to a place where I would catch a bus to take me further.

She was driving me home and helping me get to where I was going.

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