“He decided to start from afar. And he chose, as it seemed to him, the most suitable moment for this: right between pureed milk soup with broccoli (good for ligaments) and steamed turkey (protein gives strength, but it has a little calories). - Mom, you know what I’m talking about I was thinking? – He tried to make it sound casual. So that my mother would never guess how long and painfully this saving thought had matured. To believe it: this thought came to his mind suddenly, right now, between soup and turkey. However, nothing came of it. The voice trembled treacherously, breaking into some kind of humiliated and guilty ingratiation...”