The MacDonald's was in the main street of Pointe à Pitre, and with its beige, synthetic décor, it reminded her of an ageing computer. The building had in fact just been renovated.
Anne Marie hated hamburgers but today, she was spoiling her children, in return for their having agreed to accompany her to the hospital.
(She had read somewhere that junk food was one of the solutions to anorexia. Children who did not want to eat could often be persuaded to wolf down a Big Mac, French fries and a giant coke. Anne Marie would have preferred anorexia. She wondered whether Papa would shudder at the gastronomic suicide or whether he would be delighted to see his grandchildren eating with such gusto.)

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