"Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure." The original? "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas." From Camus' The Stranger. The French title, L’Étranger, can be translated as: overseas, stranger, outsider, foreign, alien. Or: extraneous, unconnected, unknown, or irrelevant. Will I be the Mother who dies? Will I die irrelevant, unconnected, extraneous?
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