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When I read the second, somewhat older story in the email, I saw a 19-year-old
young woman with dreams, hopes, drive, and perhaps also a touch of adventure
and openness in her blood. She wrote about falling in love—and yet I sensed the
unease. She wrote that he was charismatic and somewhat older than her. Who
falls in love like that? I had done the same myself, back when I was 20 and
attending folk high school. He converted a car, and we drove around Europe for
half a year. With art, nature, and sensuality, but also with his dark sides, which
could get unpleasant—and once I thought, now I must leave. In the middle of an
orange grove somewhere in Portugal, where the hell had taken him.
Hanne writes:
