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music properly. Except at dinnertime when simple tunes played, which she
gladly enjoyed.
The shelf, that the radio was on top of, he built himself. It was strategically
located right at the doorway to the living room, so they could hear music in both
rooms. Well, in the whole apartment.
The letter was still unopened on the kitchen table. He got angry when Trudie
again asked him what’s in the letter. Something kept him from opening it.
Quietly he scrolled in the newspaper from the day before.
"Turn off the light. I can easily read."
As if the day wouldn’t really start, the light remained pale. But there was just
enough light that he could read the newspaper when he used his magnifying
glass. Money wasn’t like the old days.
Trudie observed him eating a piece of toasted white bread. He should have got
used to the attention. At first she got up and did her morning routine, making her
look nice, then she ate something that he had abandoned long ago, to find out
what it was, then she browned the bread for him and made miserable coffee.
No matter how many times he pointed it out, the coffee didn’t get better.
Eventually, he gave up and drank the shit she served. He never thought about
brewing the coffee himself.
Trudie’s body was gradually slumping, and he interpreted her gaze as a mixture
of resentment and self-pity. Sometimes he wondered if she dressed in the same
boring large-flowered dresses to just get more sympathy and seem even more
helpless.
The Nazi takeover in Germany had been a disaster for him. It had not been long
before he was ordered, politely though, to rearrange the strategy for his
exhibition.
For more than 20 years, he worked hard to build a combined gallery and
museum that stood out. A place named after his last name, where the Berliners
knew that they could always find the latest art and capture the latest waves of
architecture.
Gallery-Museum Hinterglau was centrally located in the middle of Berlin and was
part of the city's museum lake near the Spree River. As a neighbor, Uno had some