Alice Lives

"I struck his head with hatred and furious passion, until the blood stained my hands. I could not control this uncontrollable anger of mine, which became a river and drowned him. But I took my revenge, for my mother, for me and for so many other women who were raped by the parastatals and the Hittites..."

"No one has learned my secret but you, reading these notes… The Alice Lives, the red, bloody lives… Our own lives, my son…"

Asia Minor coasts, Greece, Lesvos... And a war, this fratricide, which will destroy lives, but worst of all, it will be forever etched in the memories of those who survived then. To remember... To never forget. As Stefania, Stelios and Christoforos never forgot. I will not forget either, even if I did not live in this war.

I am Stavros Arapoglou. By Sofia Arapoglou. That's all I know, my mother's first and last name. As for my father, I always declared "unknown father". And this I will continue to state, even now that I know…