1973/09/24

"I thought of writing about my life with Gamal Abdel Nasser for the first time. I was in Syria during Unity Days in 1959 at the time of Unity Day. I spent almost three years writing about what was past and present. The President knew I was writing and welcoming. I changed my mind and said to myself: I do not want to write anything, and got rid of what I wrote, and told the president, regretted and said to me: Why did you do that? I said to him: I am happy as I am and I do not want to write anything, and I said: Perhaps I spoke about the facts that embarrass some people, and be related to the facts I see them running in front of me, he said to me: Do what pleases you.                                                               

I wrote about what I remember from the positions and surprises of what was happening in our house, and what I was hearing and watching with my eyes, and what the President was saying to me. I decided not to write at all, and I said to him: I am Mali .. and we laughed. Last year I decided to write, and I know very well that the president was sorry because I did not continue writing and got rid of what I wrote. I live now as if he were beside me. I do not act or do anything he did not like, even if I knew he did not want me to write something."