Hi, everybody. It's Vanessa. We have something a little bit different for you than usual.

Instead of us looking closely at a chapter of Jean-Air in the typical way, what we have for you

is a chapter of my book, praying with Jean-Air. Last week, we talked about the fact that Jane

calls Miss Temple's new husband her destiny. And I wrote a chapter of my book on that moment and

what it is that we can learn about destiny in our own lives from this like turn of phrase from

Jane. And so we are going to play you the audiobook version of that chapter and I hope you

enjoy it. And if you do, you can buy my book or order it from the library and hear more. We'll be

back with chapters 11 and 12 next week. I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 6 on Destiny. A kind fairy in my absence had surely dropped the required

suggestion on my pillow. Chapter 10, Jane-Air. I don't remember where we were walking from somewhere

to somewhere else. We were probably walking pretty slowly and we were probably arm and arm

because Papa was already quite elderly, 90 at least. I also don't remember what I had said

that made him say this to me. Probably something overly simplistic and dumb. But one day,

Papa said to me, you should be grateful for the Holocaust. You wouldn't be here without it.

The only thing I remember about the rest of the conversation is that I replied at some point,

I'm not sure that's how it works. I don't know what he meant by that comment really.

But I cannot imagine that he looked at me a true product of the Holocaust who wouldn't exist

in any way without it and thought worth it. I don't think he did the moral calculus. The closest

I can get to a theory is that he really thought I was so removed from the Holocaust that I could

be grateful for it because I now had this life. Which, given the life that he inadvertently helped

provide for me, sort of makes sense. I also think he was making a joke. All this is to say,

I think he meant it and that he didn't. But if we take him at face value, which was almost always

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