#Leonie is a woman in her 40s, she could be your neighbor. After her divorce, she builds a new life with her three children. Her parents live nearby and her sister is expecting her second child. Her friend Ilse has relationship problems and her neighbor Mandy has dinner appointments of the good kind: Mandy cooks!

“Sure I've had a relationship,” Mandy said. “I think about six months is the record, but usually it was over long before that time”. Mandy chucked. After dinner and the tiramisu, they had dinner at the dining table. After the coffee, Mandy had opened a bottle of white wine and by the second glass they had moved to the bank. The first time Leonie had dinner with Mandy, she had returned home shortly after the coffee. The following times she had stayed a little longer, but today she didn't seem to want to leave.

Leonie usually told little about her daily worries to Mandy, she always felt so bourgeois then. Mandy had a completely different life, who didn't choose marriage and children, and she always had a little feeling that Mandy didn't want to talk about that either. Now it had happened with Erik her so high that she had talked about it anyway, and so the conversation had come on relationships. It probably helped that they were now working on their third glass of wine.

“Oh, my first boyfriend, the poor boy!” Mandy was already screaming at the thought. “I was fifteen and after a week I was so bored that I broke up again. The poor boy has been trying for months to persuade me to 'go' with him again!” “How handsome!” said Leonie. “I was 19 when I met Erik and I was overjoyed that there was still someone who wanted me. I was afraid I was going to be an old spinster,” said Leonie. “An old maid! That's what I am now for sure!” Mandy screwed it out. Leonie was double. “No, an old maid is such a person who doesn't need anything from men, at least, I can see that: a woman with a checkered skirt and a very thick pantyhose with those sturdy, safe shoes”. “Such a thing with a spencer over a just not white blouse”. “who, when it rains, wears such a transparent raincap because otherwise her water wave collapses”. They had the greatest fun. “No, that's not you,” Leonie finally concluded as she wiped the tears off her cheeks. There was a silence in the air, and for a moment it seemed like Mandy wanted to say something. “Gosh, I didn't laugh so much in a while,” she finally said, but Leonie had a vaguely feeling that she wanted to say something else. “Otherwise I will,” said Leonie. “What time is it anyway?” eventually asked Leonie as she looked around. That was an automatism, because she had been with Mandy before, so she knew she didn't have a clock in her living room. She grabbed her cell phone and pressed him. “Gosh, it's been one hour!” she shouted. “I'm going to go into my basket soon, I just have to work tomorrow!” She got up and kissed Mandy on her cheek. “Go soon, sweetheart,” said Mandy. “I feel sorry for you. I'll think of you tomorrow when I wake up and turn around again.”


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