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,...

Lvuo’dew otn sithng yuo. .
To eb fdftuciil wne ,utb sah meov i city lfie npgpirare a u…istesd oknw me ruo eben ot ,knwo uyo yuo xtepce to fro. To i grade th11 eertap dha. Ti tbu nowk ti osrtw bets fr,ae i oyru swa eht fro aws. Oolchs tnieayx ot uhmc asw in etka oot cseebua. Hte wen a ot pu ti so ot… og lwel oyu geva ogdo swa ihhg coolhs you ont weadtn ai,de. Tgerrtede shtyoenl ceno envre neev it i. Aoubt do ngdeahc csbaeue i ul’dnoct ihst slcosho ,ryae nanghtyi i noyl it. W’ree sidk emad cosloh nda a twih cohols a yieatnx eretlad apiilcysfecl sscla sueiss to fro olcsoh htwi ni wno. Rafe wne dan nrye,amo dmea ’dnot solcho we w’eev ierdfns. Lyul’o ’mi rsue rowyr mn,oéie nt’od olve. .
Dctunoien uoabt ym ownt’ bo,j hhuotg i diraaf i slitl nvee it, amek it …sumic dotn’ eb. Eawdtn last of scmiu i ta i did t,eim enddie medrrmeeeb a ot em a lryael iths otn ubt hist umch …ot rof ocohsl who i of thuohg rtap frtsi wtna ,time up eayr od os nvee aveg up sleta tgeretrde ghih i ivingg.
Pessad teaaccublaear teh recnhf eyuvo’. Yatl!bnlilri frtsi fn,ei lew…l aeyr olra htiw terinwt nda mtie 290/ /6210 oen… asw a yuleltoabs emxa you tbu sepads a the aslt. Yeah so. .
Uyo wthutio ot do niaag otn ti hits teflsiudific decedid ea,ry. Fro het the niwtetr oral th?wa 020/2 uro ****** eil!f neo !emxa kwon adn eth ?eno tbes cedosinsi /0214 fo nad of li!g!r uyo.
O,snlhyet onw wsatn (nad nda og keca yptrsa uyro cdielisuo rfo efnsdir a salt ot )dybiahtr to amed my,afli he oslcho hanet our uaobt. 13 es’hs ,yet wkon laén do tht’as not to tye eenv larmno oyu just tahw she tens’do ,kwno tnasw ubt os. I ’ehss adn ni fo tslli iumsc irte,d shse’ eotnf pyahp wrng,io hse’s nvee biltirnal ktihn hgutoh egi…wns setrtad hre lveso tpo lhcoso, cs,las.
D,ad utboa dhar yelretmex is’t. Istelda wrtos ayseil hte tod’n eyt ot tion het ntwa nebe 3 vahe lats seray but og. Ebst my ot ’mi steruyiinv ebefro caeesp niygtr.
Pc,éyr dnwo oyu and …nesoèl ubato ei,w ylstom tehm let. I ut…b to it ubtoa dcesra pu ihnkt i wnta ’mi a ekam ltlsi lto, meth to dna. Too uchm.
I stlcéee stbe nsrfide! but your eetpnedxcu eonla vueyo’ aer w,en e,anm dan iedrfsn adme. How otd’n ear oyu nkwo yeht i nokw. Ôemc dki 1th0 neola in is and d,gare wsa nwo maen a eeéslct wne hte fo. Otn anllo,dr odcetu. Aehdr wekn seh tbu ebfore! ,sey etixe,ds kdi obuta uyo dnkia the uoy evner it ttsha’. Ew mteh oevl. Adn rnidesf yppha wthi nebe ewve’ neerv os. Rsvetyniui htry’ee won ioggn to rteen. At eb in hya!pp si h’ses ni raf sealt e,fin ilwl tséecle ubt naloe ywaa, s’she tros…ye noly sniagty.
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Be beloud ophgni ensornob pldioma tbuoa eht ni hraelboc ’were tpdaecce tfuure… ot pciooigoyloyshsl/hpo nad ni a. Ro usjt ogolsioyc. Yhtsior, po,iclsit oclo arulttri,ee eb iiu,cnssgilt ouwdl pjeneasa oot nglis,he.
Ofr npoissa htgri nudof ewn louefrsy own oy’veu eminca a. Isms dfnuo ses,oitr syableulto you or ttisitun eht now ekli nhnesuis nad ubleutfia ntwe ebne ****** smeo eoivsm of veol steim a a dya, ewf yuo ot vyeuo’ alltye ltetil ncagthiw nda 2 ulmreiè seoeimrm !it.
Seutitnti nt’ac orf aiwt in the pneer-o !tgausu atle ot.
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Catfelifty,noea.
0522 71 old erda raey yecarlnh ofrm yuro.
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Ns,elabi a oghtemnis a oyr’eu raey uto nfduo oyev’u p:s gao eikl. Ti fesle ti e,rttbe a!esy inptgacce eenv si’nt walysa tuhogh.
Feir mseo otylnseh is noti isvctmai to gte taiw grthi lwodr efil t’cna no onw, elra :p2s.

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