Jimmy's Life Story
Jimmy’s life began surrounded by love and complexity. He was the son of my late sister Maguy , and from childhood, my parents adopted him as their own. Maguy, his mother, loved him deeply. In time, she married and had two other children. Jimmy stayed in touch with her, but his roots remained with my parents, bound by love in a family of five sisters and two brothers. But things were not simple. From the beginning, my eldest sister, Raymonde , the firstborn, and her husband, Claudy , placed heavy burdens on him. I began to notice strange things around the summer of 1981, when Jimmy wasn’t even two years old. Something in the way they acted toward him wasn’t normal. At first, I told myself I was imagining it, and for years, tried to find explanations to excuse their behaviour, hoping it would change. But time only revealed the truth: their cruelty had no reason. When it comes to harming, I can no longer measure the depth of Raymonde and Claudy’s wickedness. As Jimmy grew, their resentmen...