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TWENTY-EIGHT
28: how did we end up here?
It was almost empty.
Like an abandoned building, it actually was. Till Nick moved in. Katharina had remembered how she felt once he opened the door to her.
Her eyes narrowed at the cottage with tall, holed roof that she began to imagine how much of a mess it was every time it rained. She halted, cupping her chin from looking above and then her gaze fell on Nick. He introduced himself that moment.
And she did the same. “Hi” She whispered.
“I’m Katharina” She added and he reluctantly took a step backward, taken aback by this stranger. And he stared in silence for a moment. She did the same.
And she noticed how sick he looked. Anorexically lean in his puffed jacket and oversized pants. He had a cap tilted to the back of his head. She noticed his size from his bare neck. And he had lost some hair, perhaps
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