TE20 Migrant Mosaics

Disappearing

hoping to spot her there we used to eat chips together on that balcony

we used to leaf through neckermann and quelle catalogues choosing our future husbands based on these pictures once she came round to my place to play and I wouldn’t let her go home I planted myself in front of the door and cried another time after a bad fight she slipped me half a banana under the desk and now all of a sudden she was gone I waited for nearly four months until in the letter-box there was a christmas card colourful and covered in glitter with a reindeer sleigh on it when I opened the card it started to sing jingle bells then I burst out crying because it was the most beautiful thing I had ever been given inside there was her neat handwriting in ink telling me about the presents she got and the school she was going to after a few weeks during the lunch break I discovered that I wasn’t the only one she had written to flori showed me a letter written in pencil very messy in which dagmar was telling her how she had kissed a boy called tim she was writing that for the time being she wouldn’t let him get

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