Just Where Do We Go From Here? Ch. 02
1 Harriet knew that life had dealt her a harsh blow. Her husband Carsten Gaertner's stroke and incapacitation, at the early age of fifty-five, had left her to manage as best as she could in changed financial and family circumstances. Of her three children, only Lothar was still at home. He was a second-year student, at Heidelberg University, and he invariably travelled into the city with her; she to pursue her work and he his studies. Lothar would often stay over with friends, so he said; but she knew that a fellow student, Lisa, was the one who so often kept him with her. It was then that she felt the loneliness of an empty house the most, and in her life also. She was married, but her husband did not recognise her and that was the cruelest cut of all. She would visit him in the care home, where she would stay and talk as if to a blank wall. She; would rarely receive any response except the dart of Carsten's eyes in the direction of her voice. So, on a kiss to Carsten's ...