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He lies awake half the night reading the instruction manual of a coffee machine instead of calling the daughter who gave it to him and confessing that he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing anymore. Or for whose sake he’s fighting.

"Everything has its price," Holger said before he left her, and when he was buried the priest said the same thing: “Grief is the price we pay for love, Ramona. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one." He was a bit drunk at the time, of course, that damn priest. But I didn’t stop him from being right.