Just mixed myself a big gin, ruminating. In the first line of LE PETIT SOLDAT, Goddard's character said that he'd been through enough -- that it was time for reflection. I for one have always reflected. . . I'll think of a time when I was six, and go from there.
When I was ten I was in grade five, and had a female for a teacher. . . we threw a party for her at the end of the year. The girls organized it as a way to get the day off. We drank pop in the morning and the teacher, touched by the gesture, cried. Payoff.