We shared six great months. I took great joy in teaching Christina how to enjoy life.
The young woman was told all her life that she should be grateful to her husband for keeping her around, as childless as she was. That her only value was that of her pretty face and sons she would give birth to.
I taught her otherwise. I showed her that there was value in her smarts, her kind heart, in her cunningness and her practicality. Christina only had to apply them, and I was glad to give her advice on how to.
Her biggest obstacle was her husband, of course. Christina couldn't do much of anything without his permission—such were the laws and customs of that time. But everyone could be convinced, it's just a matter of having right arguments and tactics. I gave them to Christina, and she applied them with great success.
