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“My parents helped me by always telling me that anything was possible!”. Her father is a manager in a large company and her mother was an employee in the same large company. Cindy, born in Paris, grew up in a middle-class literate family. Her father waited a long time to own a home and her mother still doesn’t. She learned early on not to throw money down the drain by renting, for example. She preferred to buy her first apartment at the age of 25 without any contribution. In any case, I didn’t get the feeling that she lacked anything as a child. The household was careful with its expenses, as is so often the case.

During the interview, I got the feeling that her father is a demanding man with a certain ambition for his children. This was a key point in the construction of young Cindy. Her father’s demand is a trait Cindy seems to have inherited strongly. It is a defect that, by her own admission, she tends to polish every day. Her mother taught her the transgression of conventions and rules.

And again, I might say, what does it ultimately matter once you become aware of her profile? “I’ve always learned to do without everyone else.” Is it this conviction that has forged her very assertive yet gentle character? Her interlocutors can discover one or the other of these facets, and whatever one they discover, they will not fail to discover the other….