Humberto said, “Yes, Robert, she said she had found the one she loved. But it wasn’t me.
Humberto said, “Yes, Robert, she said she had found the one she loved. But it wasn’t me. Instead it was an older man. I didn’t even ask his name. I left immediately. About five months later Odile told me she was pregnant. She didn’t say if I or her new lover was the father, and I didn’t ask. In fact, I left Paris and came to Brazil. I didn’t have any contact with Odile for many years after that. I later learned she had a daughter and named her Segolene. I married Gloria and tried to wipe all memory of Odile from my mind, but of course I couldn’t I felt she was my soul mate. About seventeen years later, I learned from a business associate that Segolene had a daughter and named her O after her grandmother, Odile, who went by the initial O. And then nephew one day twenty years after that you showed up at my villa with a beautiful young red headed girl named O. I knew even without seeing the resemblance that she was the granddaughter of my lover. I should have told you immediately, but I was selfish. Seeing O took me back more than fifty years. It was as if I was young again with Odile. But then after you went into the interior and were presumed dead, I couldn’t stand it. I told O I had been her grandmother’s lover. She was crushed and went back to Paris leaving her friend Yasime here with me. Even though over fifty years have passed, Odile still haunts me. It is my Fate. -- source link
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