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fitofgrandair and/or checkmystache)
Otro día se va,
y eres mucho más viejo.
(Otro día se va, Los Miserables- Spanish version of "At the end of the day")
Everyday the same.
She wakes the first of all the family. She dresses herself in the corridor to let her sister and her mother sleep a bit more. Grabs a bit of the bread of the day before and the fruit that Helène, her mother's maid, (who hasn't left Mother's shadow even after Father died and they couldn't pay her) has managed to get at the market.
And gets her shawl and a kiss on the cheek from Helène, despite the eternal look of disapproval (You should be married to a nice man, not working in such a place.)
She does open the door and the day, which is barely waking up itself, welcomes her while she walks in direction to the factory, eating the fruit and minding her own business, despite the fact that one can barely do so in the streets of Paris.
She meets with her co-workers at the door. All of them sleepy eyes and dark circles under them. But also smiles, because they are like sisters. And all seem to be around Rose, who holds a letter. Her boyfriend is coming back to Paris and is going to "ask her an important question".
(Irma could care less about said question, but is happy for Rose).
They enter and begin their work.
While all of them are embroidering, the girls joke that they should find Irma a boyfriend. And make a family of her own. That meets with laughter from Irma. She has a family of her own already, and she was a natural born spinster.
"That lady who will tell stories of all our crazy youths to your grandchildren, ladies."
They all laugh heartily, which gets them a reprimand from the supervisor, and they all continue in silence till the day reaches its end.
The end of the day and she begins the path back home after she says "See you tomorrow" to the girls.
It was another day, after all.
y eres mucho más viejo.
(Otro día se va, Los Miserables- Spanish version of "At the end of the day")
Everyday the same.
She wakes the first of all the family. She dresses herself in the corridor to let her sister and her mother sleep a bit more. Grabs a bit of the bread of the day before and the fruit that Helène, her mother's maid, (who hasn't left Mother's shadow even after Father died and they couldn't pay her) has managed to get at the market.
And gets her shawl and a kiss on the cheek from Helène, despite the eternal look of disapproval (You should be married to a nice man, not working in such a place.)
She does open the door and the day, which is barely waking up itself, welcomes her while she walks in direction to the factory, eating the fruit and minding her own business, despite the fact that one can barely do so in the streets of Paris.
She meets with her co-workers at the door. All of them sleepy eyes and dark circles under them. But also smiles, because they are like sisters. And all seem to be around Rose, who holds a letter. Her boyfriend is coming back to Paris and is going to "ask her an important question".
(Irma could care less about said question, but is happy for Rose).
They enter and begin their work.
While all of them are embroidering, the girls joke that they should find Irma a boyfriend. And make a family of her own. That meets with laughter from Irma. She has a family of her own already, and she was a natural born spinster.
"That lady who will tell stories of all our crazy youths to your grandchildren, ladies."
They all laugh heartily, which gets them a reprimand from the supervisor, and they all continue in silence till the day reaches its end.
The end of the day and she begins the path back home after she says "See you tomorrow" to the girls.
It was another day, after all.