Chapter Four‘I love you as certain dark things to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.’
- Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Episode 31 - ProposalMonte Carlo, France, 28 December
My attempts to dissuade maman bring no results for the bogus photograph on the f*******: screams out a different truth.
Where has this ‘amorous’ model come from anyway? It’s so unlike maman to invite unfamiliar people to her soirées. She always picks and mixes with such a great care. Perhaps, the 'bikini girl’ is an acquaintance of one of her friends' daughters. But still, it's unclear what this girl aims at achieving by her pestering. For friends we are obviously not, common interests we don't have, models don't attract me, besides asking a permission to take a picture of me she hasn't spoken
