Blue Is the Warmest Color. Julie Maroh

      …

      I SEE YOU’RE STILL SMOKING, EMMA. AT

      LEAST MY DAUGHTER DIDN’T PICK

      UP THAT VICE FROM YOU.

      DANIEL,

      PLEASE; WE

      JUST BURIED OUR

      DAUGHTER!

      EXACTLY. I DON’T SEE

      WHAT THIS DEPRAVED

      GIRL WHO DROVE HER

      TO HER GRAVE IS

      DOING HERE!

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      PLEASE STOP TALKING

      NONSENSE! CLEMENTINE TOLD US THAT

      SHE WANTED EMMA TO SLEEP HERE

      TONIGHT, AND I PROMISED HER.

      NO, THANK YOU. I’M

       GOING TO GO BACK

       TO MY READING.

      CLEMENTINE

      WROTE TO ASK

      THEM THAT?!

      MORE

      SALAD?

      DANIEL!

      CLEARLY YOUR

      FATHER HAS SOME

      STRANGE WAYS OF

      EXTERNALIZING HIS

      GRIEF.

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      HMM, YOU DIDN’T WRITE

      ANYTHING BETWEEN MAY AND

      NOVEMBER 1995 …

      November 16th, 1995

      Dear Diary,

      For months now,

      I’ve been staring

      at the walls and

      asking a lot of

      questions about

      myself.

      But today I feel like a somebody,

      and a good citizen too.

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      Nathan, Eli, and Aude

      took me to a

      demonstration this

      afternoon.

      They were protesting the

       Prime Minister’s proposition.

       I’ve never seen a crowd like

       that before!

      BLAH BLAH

      FREEZE SALARIES

      BLAH BLAH PRIVATIZE SOCIAL

      SECURITY, RETIREMENT BLAH BLAH

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      Today did me

      a lot of good.

      I made him very unhappy. He

      tried to get us back together, but I

      explained to him that it wasn’t his

      fault, and that there was nothing he

      could do, and to just forget about

      me …

      He was really hooked

      on me, and I was

      afraid that he would

      stop studying for his

      entrance exams, but he

      passed, and is now at the

      university here in Lille,

      from what I’ve heard.

      As far as my life is

      concerned now: I

      broke up with Thomas

      a couple of days

      after having nearly

      slept with him. Every