Maude Caron is bored. She has returned from school, it is dark and she drags the uneasiness of her 13 years into the house of her mother and stepfather, near Nancy. When she comes across a mirror, it reflects back to her the questions that filled her adolescence. Who owns these high cheekbones, this black hair? Where do these dark eyes and angular features come from? This athletic body, both robust and slim? Maude looks like her mother, yes, but she has none of her father’s traits.
The young girl has had doubts for two years already. She came up with a theory. His mother cheated on his father. She’s such a powerful woman, ” a lion “, while his father sometimes seems so weak to him. Since she was 2 years old and her parents divorced, Maude has been tossed between two lives. That of her father, of the people at home, of the parties where she is the only child. That of his mother, orderly family life, France Inter, Télérama, where she is the good little girl. She has an older brother and two younger sisters on her mother’s side. But of the short and tumultuous union of her two parents, between 1978 and 1984, in Nancy, she is the only child.
This evening in 1995, Maude strolls on the mezzanine, in the office-library. There are whole shelves of books, but none of them appeal to him. She comes across a large archive file that is familiar to her, of these household objects that are part of the decor. A label: “Divorce Pierre” (the first name has been changed). Where do the upheavals arise from? “Here, come on, I’m going to read this,” she said to herself that evening, as if out of spite.
The discovery of giant siblings
The divorce was long and stormy. His parents are on bad terms, they clashed for several years. She already knows this, since, one day, the police had to be called in: her father had come to pick her up for the holidays, but her mother did not agree with him on the dates. She goes through the pages of letters from lawyers, testimonies from relatives, then comes across a document. “Born by anonymous sperm donation. »
Maude puts the file back in its place. She goes to her room and cries all night. In the morning, her mother notices that she is not well, she questions her daughter and answers her. Yes, she was born a gift, because her father could not have children. They went to see the gynecologist, who directed them to the center for the study and conservation of eggs and human sperm (Cecos) in Nancy. “It worked the first time” said his mother.
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