Sleep dream. I’m at some sort of a Latvian camp, a la 3x3, in Latvia. Iluta is there, but looking very different from how I last saw her. She has lost weight, is quite svelte. Her hair is thicker, a wavy dark blond with highlites. Her face is not hers – it is altogether a different face, its features changed, finer, almost pretty. Somehow reminiscent of aunt Valda. No worry in this face. She is friendly, talkative. She introduces me to her son, a fine looking 16 or so year old. I can tell that she hopes that her boy and I will form a special friendship.
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