Camille Danielle Wortman
towards him.....”. And then, at school everything
was different and rational and totally cut off from
my family life and I had to navigate in and out of
these very different universes. I received the best
education in the french schools,my teachers were
dedicated to their”mission” and this helped me
escape from the squalor of my street, the poverty
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of my family, the chronic sickness of my dad and
the death of two of my young brothers. The song “à
la claire fontaine” is for ever linked with the
sadness of my little brothers’ death as I remember
singing it in class just after the little coffin had left
our home! So in my mind the bird is always sad, he
has always a broken wing... Well, what can I say,
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