Kacper went off on his bike. Borys was up earlier, making Easter decorations. Jan took his trading cards — Wednesday is swap day at his nursery. Except that Jan’s are knock-offs. In that group the children pay absurd money for the originals. Jan stated a fact: he has no originals and the others will not trade. That is all. He did not come to me to put pressure on me. He did not make a crisis of it. He goes on collecting his knock-offs; to him they mean something. And yesterday he brought home a diplodocus — suede, a decent size, made by his
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