A ten -year old walks a five- year old to school every day. The way there is calm but on the way back, the ten-year old tell the kindergartner scary stories. The younger one screams and cries when the story is told. It's a game, but it isn't. One day, she isn't there in the morning and the ten-year old is told the younger one is now going to public school. She is grief stricken. Translated from the French. Perhaps that's why I didn't get it. Or maybe it's a religious thing (they are Catholic). But why did the kindergartner go along with it? Why did the older child derive satisfaction from the game. Just not enough information for me.
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