A 2023 calendar still on the desk, a game of badminton below as background music, packets of low-cost multi-fruit juice stored on the ground in boxes.
The afternoon stretches out peacefully at the Champy gymnasium in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis).
From his cramped premises, a man strikes a pose, a little constrained and forced: “I never liked the light, being in front.
My wife took care of that.
She knew some nice people.
She definitely had more personality than me.
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Is he telling the truth?
We'll never know.
In his favorite wool sweater, Georges Honigman, 86 years old, systematically finds ways to talk about everything except himself.
His wife Michelle, ten years his senior, passed away a few months ago.
A tragedy that occurred just before his 50th anniversary as president of the city's volleyball club was celebrated.
Their joint creation.
An association on a human scale, which brings together 270 licensees and around ten men's and women's teams.
As the day's PE classes end and night sets in, his smile warms the place.
“There were more than 200 of us at the church,” he slips.
Mainly volleyball people.
If you knew all the messages I received, we would say to ourselves that we didn't do all this for nothing.
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