When I was younger my mother used to take me to my grandparent’s for the summer holiday.
They had a large farm in the country, with a lot of animals and I adored spending my summer there.
Every year I met all my old friends- there were seven other children- and we used to play together all day.

One day we decided to explore a marshy ground just outside our village.
My grandmother always told me not to go there, that it was dangerous.
I should have listened to her.

The ground was full of puddles, bushes and weed and we were moving slowly in a column.
We had brought a coil of rape, if anybody fell in a puddle, the others would save him with that rape.

Suddenly Gio’, who was marching at the head, shouted.
And then he said with fright:”A snake! Run, run!”.
Everybody did an about turn and started running but after a few steps we heard a voice asking for help.

Liu had fallen into a deep puddle and she was waist-deep in the mire. She burst into tears.
Then I unreeled the rape and threw an end to Liu.
We pulled all together and managed to drag her out of the puddle.

We quickly went away and we didn’t say a word of what happened.
It was our secret. We never went back to the marsh, that was from then on the forbidden place.

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