I don't know what to say, tailor. It's a sad story and it a complicated situation. From some other posts I know that you sometimes come rather close...
That is very funny, Sancho because I spent the most part of my life, thinking that the original was Portuguese and had been adopted and translated by...
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row