Dear girl, by Edith Olivier

Dear child
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Loneliness had an easy solution in childhood. In fact, it never got to be complete loneliness. The imagination could reconstruct the moment and by extension, the world.

The imaginary friend was an absolutely condescending guy with your games and your ideas. Someone to whom you entrust your entire existence with absolute security in your confidentiality. An imaginary friend, preserved from the adult world, could become your best friend.

This book Dear child , original from 1927 and recovered for the cause by Editorial Periférica, is a firm plea in favor of the imaginary friend. When Agatha Bodenham is left alone in the world, she decides to rebuild everything, she cannot bear the feeling of heavy loneliness that governs her.

Clarissa, her imaginary childhood friend, returns now, miraculously recovered from the sensations of those beautiful early years. The problem is that at certain ages the imaginary is labeled pathological, without understanding the particularity of each person, which leads someone to try to fill their empty world.

That is why Agatha does not want to reveal that parallel existence that accompanies her, despite the fact that little by little her presence is being divined, always next to Agatha. Clarissa brings answers from childhood to all of Agatha's metaphysical doubts. It calms her down and helps her get through each day.

Agatha needs Clarissa. She occupies a large part of her soul and any attempt at emotional rapprochement seems like an attack on her friend. The magical coexistence of that friendship in the reality of the day to day finds a fit in complicity. Where others would see and see only ghosts, Agatha sees her soul mate. And thanks to it he can get ahead, undertaking life with the reaffirmed will of that presence.

Loneliness always tries to make a new space for itself, between a reality driven by customs, norms and labels that favor its easy integration. But Clarissa whispers from the silence, takes Agatha's hand and transmits the serenity to not find herself alone. With it, Agatha can live her life with a will that is proof against all adverse circumstances.

But no one can know Clarissa, no one can access that particular plane of experience, halfway between the reality of others and the reality reconstructed by Agatha.

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