Real Fiction / Liana Lidia Tomescu, translated by Liliana Popescu: (re)create your childhood

My parents had a good status in the village. My mother would always put a generous slice of ham and bread in my backpack. That ham tasted so good it made your taste buds tingle, no joke. My classmate, a silky boy with sky-blue eyes, didn’t have any to go. I always helped him with his homework and encouraged him to learn by promising him half of my lunch. That’s how the last years of middle school …