Surviving the Worst

"e;How is it possible to recover and love the world again when you have lived through the worst? "e;On the night of September 5, 1990, my two children, Lucie and Sylvain, were murdered by their own father. Faced with such a tragedy, I could have killed myself, but I chose life. Like many mothers, I believed that I could never live without my children. And yet... today, I am no longer ashamed to be alive. Surviving hell is possible. "e;There is not a word in the dictionary that is good enough to define the nothingness in which I and my family found ourselves."e;"e;To fill this gap, I decided to write my story. How can you survive the death of your children? I hope that my testimony will help you, dear reader, to understand the pain of the victims and perhaps one day to overcome it."e;In this extraordinary story, of rare humanity, Patricia Oddo finds the strength to live for her children, to fall in love, to be a mother again, to speak without taboo about this tragedy that struck her children, and to mourn this tragedy thirty years later. Patricia Oddo is a secretary and works in a family business near Chartres, France.