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<< XIX Anna and Marcel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pieter and Godfried<\/strong> Neighbour Clairette tempts Pieter to come and taste rice pudding. In heaven it is also served, with golden little spoons. But the little boy finds the porridge disgusting and does not want to go to heaven at all. Godfried, smoking a Belga, keeps an eye on his son: forking it all in without comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frie worries about Pieter\u2019s future: \u201cYou\u2019re a good boy, but you really ought to become a bit more of a man by now, shouldn\u2019t you. And you\u2019re far too soft, you\u2019re just a weakling. He can only talk to me about luxury. I wouldn\u2019t make it in life like that, would I. You should learn to realise that you have to work for all that luxury. My Mia spoils her boy. Nothing good will come of it. Laugh about it with me, boy. You really wouldn\u2019t be sitting here in luxury if you didn\u2019t have him, the old man. It will be much less with them. Just wait until you have to beg for a little job. They\u2019ll have a good laugh about it.\u201d – Frie was not generous with compliments, but Pieter keeps his spirits up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Godfried is delighted that Pieter passes his driving test and motivates him to go for the lorry and bus licence. \u201cThen you can go and drive a lorry in Iraq as cannon fodder.\u201d – Frie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(2002) References please! B\u00e9a from Hasselt is very keen on following rules, good manners, order and tidiness. The Limburg girl and Pieter seem to get along well. So Godfried: \u201cCome on, boy! Just marry that girl. She\u2019s pretty and rich. She\u2019ll surely find you a nice little job in her factory. Something where you don\u2019t have to work too much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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B\u00e9a and Pieter<\/strong> (Paris, 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mia and Pieter in Switzerland<\/strong> (photo: 1981)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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