Surviving the worst

<p>How is it possible to recover and love the world again when you have lived through the worst? 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.</p><p>There is not a word in the dictionary that is good enough to define the nothingness in which I and my family found ourselves.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>