22 OceanofPDF.com FILIP One time when I was staying with Nona as a young boy, I found a brand-new skateboard tucked away in her closet. My birthday was only a week away, and I knew the board was for me. I floated on air all week, anticipating my gift. When the day rolled around and I opened my present from Nona, I was stunned to unwrap a new Lego set. I’d been certain the skateboard was mine, but I’d somehow forgotten I wasn’t Nona’s only grandchild. That same feeling of bewildered astonishment came over me as I listened to Camilla tell her tale. What she imparted was totally unexpected. I’d known there’d been some sort of trauma in her past, and I had pieced together my own suspected conclusions, but none were even close to the truth. She hadn’t been in some dominant/submissive relationsh
