“There is an old guest house opposite my house, and grandsons visit from time to time from the U.S., every time grown up a little. I don't know whether the same grandchildren come every time or it is someone else.”

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This feels like a gentle meditation on aging and memory, with grandchildren arriving as a changing, half-familiar presence. The uncertainty about who is who gives the scene a slightly dreamlike quality, as if time is moving faster than recognition. It lands in a family moment when children return after long gaps, and the older person feels both joy and a soft disorientation.

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Originally said in English.

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