A Little Empathy Is All We Need

But becoming a little thoughtful I let myself fall back against my soft pillow. In the meantime it was already getting dark in our bedroom. I had actually spent the whole day telling Jonas my life story. Meanwhile, Kimmy and Hannes were also lying in our bed, purring contentedly and dreaming to themselves. As I swallowed, I noticed how dry my throat had become in the meantime. Because even if I drank several cups of fruit tea and water during the day, the long telling had cost me a lot of saliva. "So my little mouse-man knew about your ancestors," suddenly flashed through my head. “And that's why it wasn't terribly bad to have fallen in love with you and married. Because you are one of us, so to speak. I kept asking myself why my family didn't see this as pure tragedy and shame. And even when I finally confessed to Janica and Elena, heads red with embarrassment and downcast eyes, that I had fallen in love with you and that a terrible curse was now breaking

Last Updated : 2020-09-30

But becoming a little thoughtful I let myself fall back against my soft pillow. In the meantime it was already getting dark in our bedroom. I had actually spent the whole day telling Jonas my life story. Meanwhile, Kimmy and Hannes were also lying in our bed, purring contentedly and dreaming to themselves. As I swallowed, I noticed how dry my throat had become in the meantime. Because even if I drank several cups of fruit tea and water during the day, the long telling had cost me a lot of saliva. "So my little mouse-man knew about your ancestors," suddenly flashed through my head. “And that's why it wasn't terribly bad to have fallen in love with you and married. Because you are one of us, so to speak. I kept asking myself why my family didn't see this as pure tragedy and shame. And even when I finally confessed to Janica and Elena, heads red with embarrassment and downcast eyes, that I had fallen in love with you and that a terrible curse was now breaking

Last Updated : 2020-09-30

But becoming a little thoughtful I let myself fall back against my soft pillow. In the meantime it was already getting dark in our bedroom. I had actually spent the whole day telling Jonas my life story. Meanwhile, Kimmy and Hannes were also lying in our bed, purring contentedly and dreaming to themselves. As I swallowed, I noticed how dry my throat had become in the meantime. Because even if I drank several cups of fruit tea and water during the day, the long telling had cost me a lot of saliva. "So my little mouse-man knew about your ancestors," suddenly flashed through my head. “And that's why it wasn't terribly bad to have fallen in love with you and married. Because you are one of us, so to speak. I kept asking myself why my family didn't see this as pure tragedy and shame. And even when I finally confessed to Janica and Elena, heads red with embarrassment and downcast eyes, that I had fallen in love with you and that a terrible curse was now breaking

Last Updated : 2020-09-30

›Zerlina, come on, please wake up!‹ A familiar male voice begged softly. Someone seemed to be holding me in their arms as I emerged from the dark tunnel back into real life. Also, I no longer sat in my wheelchair in the church in front of the altar, as I did before visiting my biological family, but lay half-way stretched out on a pew and someone caressed my face lovingly. He said my name quietly at a few intervals. Slowly and with difficulty I opened my eyes and thought I recognized the outlines of someone I knew in the fog of my echoing impotence. I groaned softly and tried to move. ›Lie down‹ very calmly, Zerlina. You passed out. ' Then I felt myself being put on something and being gently pressed with my face against a shoulder that gave me support. A tear rolled down my cheek. And suddenly I could no longer suppress the violent sobs that I had held back with all my might for so long. &rsa

Last Updated : 2020-09-30

After my personal assistant put me in bed that evening and I lay quietly in the dark in my room, I pondered the conversation with Elena for a long time. And the great remorse was so on my mind that after a while I couldn't move because of my back pain. But the only person I could easily confide i

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When we flew back to Munich a day later, I was still pretty confused. I didn't know if I was happy to come home. How I would have loved to fly to a quiet place with Kira, my best friend, to sort my thoughts. But since this was not possible for me, I just flew back to Munich with Janica.Du

On an icy night in the last week of January, Janica and I flew to Rome. Only this time we flew in a normal, warm plane. The risk was simply too great that the Vatican would discover our true identity when we traveled our brooms.We found accommodation in the apartment of a nun who lived ju