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Aunt Line!
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Are you all right?
:16:09
I'm fine, dear. I was thinking.
:16:13
I'm just fine.
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Is that all?
:16:18
Is this charming piece over?
:16:22
No, but...
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Carry on. It's most instructive.
:16:27
I feel very awkward. I should leave.
:16:30
No, you have to stay.
:16:31
It's all linked to the elections.
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Here's the rest.
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I'm sorry, Aunt Line.
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I think I know
what it's about, dear.
:16:44
Don't worry for my sake.
:16:47
"Pierre Charpin, the grandfather,
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"held an important administrative
post from 1940 to 1944.
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"So his son
cut off all ties with him
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"then got shot in the Resistance
shortly after D-Day.
:17:00
"One bad egg in the wrong basket.
:17:04
"A fine omelette!
:17:06
"Pierre Charpin was then murdered
in strange circumstances.
:17:10
"One of his daughters, Micheline,
was suspected."
:17:15
That's so unfair!
The case was dismissed, Aunt Line!
:17:18
It doesn't matter, dear.
:17:21
"Her acquittal convinced no one,
:17:23
"no more than the theory
of political revenge.
:17:26
"Pierre Charpin's wife died
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"of a possible broken heart
a few weeks later.
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"The Charpins' annus horribilis.
:17:34
"Fate has been hard on them
these last 50 years.
:17:39
"Let's hope that, on election day,
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"Madame Anne Charpin-Vasseur,
the queen of flightiness,
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"will uphold family tradition
and be soundly beaten."
:17:55
Right. Who wrote it?
:17:57
I don't think we'll ever know.