CHAPTER 60
By now I had reached the age and the life experience in which nothing could surprise me anymore. Not even the fact that my husband, one morning like many others, reached me in my private room and announced that he was leaving me to go and live with his “new partner”. Yes, that’s right, it’s how he called her. She, the new partner, was twenty years younger than him, had been his student and was expecting a baby. And he wanted to do things right.
I looked at him almost without feeling any emotion, clinging to the book I was reading as a lifeline. I only wondered how he, who had never wanted to let me go and had used all the means in his power to prevent me, announced to me the separation so frankly, from one day to the next, expecting me to accept without replying.
A part of me
