bird tattoo

Sometimes they communicated with signs because much of what they wanted to express they had not yet learned in English. She understood that when he was five years old he had lost his mother in a massacre. He could not understand then that she could disappear from him like that, so he kept crying and asking his father for her. His father told him that his mother would come back to him if he could glue together broken pots. His father worked in a ceramic repair shop. So from that day on he would take him with him to the shop to help him glue together broken pots. He would glue the pieces together excitedly and wait for his mother to come back to him. She drew a heart with a crack in it. She wanted to say that she was sorry for the loss of his mother, and that she too had lost loved ones who had no graves to visit.