This is my sister's third child, Tessa on the left in my Swiss ski teacher's arms, me and two ladies from my skiing group. Since my sister does not ski, she had asked me to take her kids skiing because Tessa had asthma. So we spent the night in the train with her sister Kim who was about 10 and her brother Kevin who must have been eight or nine. Tessa would not sleep because she was too excited to be away from her mother for the first time in her life. So finally, laying with her in her couchette at one o'clock in the morning I said : "Tessa you must go to sleep now" but she answered very seriously : "But aunt Bea, this body does not want to sleep!" like : what are you talking about if the body does not want it... so little but so wise!

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