Uncle Heini is 99. We get off at the train station in Solln and are met by Chris and Alice and they are quite obviously enjoying each other's company. There's no Andy and Jess or Bobby , because Andy, recently returned from Botswana , has to meet a deadline. Anne and Kate have not graced us with their presence either. Alice and Eve seem pleased to see each other. We arrived at Stohr Strasse and I am looking for the big Spruce in the middle of the garden, but then remember that it was chopped down. Rose greets us: Inside, I show Eve: - "This is where we slept when we came the first time in 1967." Down the steps into the big basement, now more or less a store room. It was late autumn and they put heavy eiderdowns on top of us. We three little Kenyan boys wake up in the morning sweating. Heini is standing on the landing, gesturing to us. He is dressed smartly in a well cut, dark green Bavarian suit. Rose , and Heini, must both...
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