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“No, no. Dieter was a rather special man. He was a child of war and his

mother was dead, I think he and the father saw something in me that his mother
possessed, she was not from the country either and had a fine academic

education, a very rare thing for a woman from that time. Even though it's so

many years ago, I still remember that he sometimes talked about that he was sad
that he had lost his mother.”

Tom nods and squints at the clock.

“From other sources, I have been told that Dieter was very hurt that I
accepted the scholarship. It was deeper than just that I had to travel. He was very

proud man, as well as secretive. I have later thought about whether the dairy
group he built, was something he was even passionate about, because he had a

great interest for art, like a strange obsession that he wouldn’t let me in on.”

"Well, I think this is the perfect moment for what I have to tell you then.
Prepare for a little shock," he says.

"Yes, come with it."

"Johan, your adopted son, has been missing for the last twenty years, and
no one knows where he is. Unfortunately he has probably passed away, that is

the theory that the police are holding on to, but within the last few months
something new has suddenly appeared, something suggesting that the police

theory might be wrong. It is a complicated case, and as I said we will have to talk

together at some point again. ”
"Yes, yes, since it has been so many years after his disappearance. Have

you not been able to find him or rather clues in this case? " She asks.

"No – that’s is the short answer to that question. Unfortunately.”
Inge-Lise nods and stares into air, looking tired. She lifts a finger up in

front of her face as when you want to say something important.

"Yes…" She mumbles out. “It doesn’t completely surprise me what you
say. Johan's father was an incredibly charming and wise man, and to be

completely honest, I think he had other women than me; he was a very secretive

type. I can remember that was why I did not have so many doubts about
travelling away. In my mind, I had always the hope that he would crawl back to

me and repent, tell me what he’s done. He never did.”
"Alright," says Tom quiet and understandingly.