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I’ve known Lena from across the road since she was a “littlie”, as Isla Leslie would say.

“What’s your name? What are you doing? What’s that plant?  When’s your wife home from work”

I was friends with her long before we even met her parents.

I took her out on her first date for (a very early) dinner when she was about 9, chaperoned by Ms jb’s niece. (Rumour has it that she took 2 hours to decide on which dress to wear…)

She’s 22 now, studying law in Konstanz at one of Germany’s top universities and just left for a year’s study in Istanbul.

She’s also got a boyfriend, David, Lorenz and Hildegard Schuster‘s boy.

Nice guy. A REALLY nice guy.

He’s studying economics in Maastricht and is on a year’s exchange in Bogota.

Before he left, he asked Lena’s folks whether he could plant – unbenown to Lena – some sunflower seds in the garden so that they’d bloom before she left for Istanbul.

These are they.

Now, isn’t that a nice story.

True, too…

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