Article originally published on December 28, 2017.
These are children’s words spoken by a little girl in a schoolyard. A sentence like an enigma, which freezes Marie’s blood. We are in 1986, she has just turned 8 years old.
“There are two of my friends playing in a corner. I approach them and ask them what they are doing. The first looks at me and says: ‘Marie, there is a corpse. Someone buried under your leaves. Above all, you don’t say anything.'”
These are words in the air, children’s games confined to the imagination and yet, without being able to explain it, Marie is upset. Thirty years later, she says that this sentence, in her, “surely unlocked everything”.
“It’s as if she had spoken directly to my subconscious. Overnight, I had the intimate conviction that there was indeed a corpse somewhere, that it concerned me directly and that it Above all, I shouldn’t talk about it, otherwise something serious would happen.”
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Without anyone realizing it, the little girl develops OCD. Under the kitchen sink, she regularly checks that the gas is off. At the bilboquet, she fears dying if she fails after three tries. This corpse that Marie hides grows, prevents her from sleeping.
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