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Preface

Chapter 1

Oliver is the first to land in the kitchen; he always is.

Dressed in black Calvin Klein pajama pants, made of black mélange fabric. No
accompanying jacket or blouse. Just the pants and his naked, well-trained upper body.

Dog paws sprint across the floor, and it's little Trevor, a soon-to-be one-year-old Labrador puppy,
who is hot on Oliver's heels.

"Ruff"

She can hear Oliver saying lovely.

"You keep quiet."
They are a troublesome couple. Those who know Oliver will have sworn that he would never
become a dog owner. He is the epitome of a big city person and has absolutely no relationship with
pets. When she, who was raised with a dog, brought it up, in connection with lea's birthday, he had
clearly rejected the idea.
"You can get me involved in almost anything, but I don't mind dogs."

Even so, he had been persuaded. Mathew had come to their rescue.

Oliver blindly trusts her father, -The medical director, and admires both her father and her.
Medicine is something foreign and very technical to him, something he does not really understand
but clearly perceives them, as kind of very responsible experts. Mathew had talked about all the
good that dogs could do for children ,about contact, the development of feelings, and empathy. And
with that, he had given in to the idea. The first thing he does is go from the kitchen into the entrance
hall, open the front door, down the four steps from the entrance area, and

further down the garden path towards the mailbox, where with a rehearsed maneuver, he fishes the
newspaper up through the crack, without opening the mailbox himself. Then he rushes back and
preferably sits on the terrace, but on winter days like today, he has to make do with the living room
and his beloved old leather chair. But before he settles down, he takes the cup, which is now filled
with fragrant freshly made coffee, from their newly purchased espresso coffee machine. During the
entire session, he has Trevor right on his heels.

"It's my kind of meditation."

What did he use to say at the beginning of their relationship when Gabriella asked – Why did he get
up at 4:30 a.m. every day?