Edna

“Who am I? Edna, the smartest woman.”

“”I have been here for 25 years… Here I have friends, if it wasn’t good for me, I wouldn’t be here… At first, I was closed off, but now I have friends and I slowly opened up… My boyfriend and I got engaged a year ago, he never took his eyes off me, we are talking about getting married soon, another meeting with the parents… We have been together for 21 years, the parents congratulated us, I said, I am getting engaged to him, he is the love of my life. My mother’s hair stood up and she ran to tell her friends…”

“I help my parents as much as I can, clean the house, take out the trash, do the shopping. My father needs to have surgery, and my mother had brain surgery… The greatest gift would be for my parents to be healthy and not need all these surgeries… When my parents are no longer alive, my brother will be my guardian, and that will make me feel better…”

“Age 50. It feels a bit strange to me. When I look in the mirror, I see a different person. The face is getting a bit wrinkled, under the eyes, it feels a bit strange to me. My mother says, ‘My daughter is aging,’ it doesn’t make me feel good… It’s me, not me, a bit strange. The voice also changes, the neck gets wrinkled too, folds on the face, it’s a bit hard to bend over…”