She realises I’ve seen them, that I’m thinking she’s older than Maman Pauline, who is probably her younger sister, but really much younger, her daughter maybe. But I’m thinking something else: would she possibly agree to have a seed from my mother’s insides and keep it in her insides, so that Maman Pauline’s children wouldn’t go straight to heaven without coming down to earth? If she’d do that, Maman Pauline would stop being unhappy, there’d be another child in our house, because Maman Martine’s children don’t go straight up to heaven as soon as they arrive. Also, if Maman Martine agrees to my plan, we could keep it secret, we would tell people that the little seed really came from her insides. One day I must talk to Papa Roger about it, because I don’t really think this doctor can sort things out inside my mother, even if he’s white and white people never get anything wrong. At the same time, I’m sure there must be loads of women like Maman Pauline, loads of women looking for a child the whole time, and who can’t have one and never will, even if they’re cared for by white doctors.
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