Neither of us overlooked Andre’s intelligence or his sensitivity; I suppose we could think that the boy already knew…
Several weeks after New Year’s, and now that my parents surely knew who my new partner was, things began to fall into place. Since Alexander could practically work from wherever he was (as his job as director of VLC Air Services & Logistics was more about receiving and writing miles of emails, analyzing projections, arranging budgets, reviewing documents, proposing business strategies, making phone calls and video calls, and signing things that he then sent by fax), I invited them to spend a few days with me, when Andre told me they were on school vacation at his academy.
Of course, I had been thinking a lot about those days while trying to develop a vague idea I had for
