My earlier dreams of the tower showed my isolation and loneliness. At home, as the eldest, I was always ahead of my siblings, my parents could not match my intelligence, and in all intellectual matters I was alone. On the one hand, I had to demonstrate my knowledge in order to be taken seriously, and on the other, I had to hide it or my parents would say: “Your studies are going to your head! Do you think you are better than everyone else, just because you had the chance to study? Without your mother’s sacrifice and your father’s hard work you would never have been able to do it.” That made me
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