Chapter 7:- When Lou was 8 years old, her mother got pregnant. The whole family was happy because Anouk and Bernard had been trying for a second child for a long time. Lou reminisces about the moments looking at the photos. Her mother would be mad if she caught her; Thais is a taboo subject.- A few months after the birth of her little sister, Lou heard her mother screaming one Sunday morning. She ran to Thais' room and saw her mother shake it. Thais had died of sudden infant death syndrome.- After the funeral, life resumed its course but Lou's mother never returned to work. She was there without being there.- It was at this time that Lou's teacher advised her father to take her to see a psychologist because Lou was withdrawn, supportive and of "worrying maturity". It was Mrs. Cortanze, the psychologist, who made her pass several tests including an IQ test.- When Lou returned from vacation with her grandparents, her mother, whose condition had continued to worsen, had been admitted to a hospital for people with depression.- Lou was enrolled in a special school for intellectually precocious children in Nantes and spent 4 years there. She came home every other weekend and for weeks dreamed that when her father brought her back to the train station, he would "step on the accelerator and throw the three of them into the wall, together forever".

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