#Leonie is a woman in her 40s, she could be your neighbor. After her divorce, she builds her new life. With neighbor Mandy she has dinner appointments of the good kind: Mandy cooks! Love also comes around the corner again, with all the consequences that this entails..

“And if the parents are happy and the children are not? What then?” Julia was really on the move now. “Dear dear, you are angry now. And I understand that you find the situation difficult. Maybe Dad and I look happy now, but we're also finding it hard. At least I do. And since I wanted the divorce, I might be the first person to be happier again. It wasn't your choice, you had to go along with it and that's hard, I really understand that, although you don't think so now. We all have to get used to it. It will be really good.” Leonie grabbed Julia's hand and felt for a moment that Julia wanted to pull her hand back. But she didn't.

“How do you know Daddy's happy? Is he talking to you?” Julia looked at Leonie briefly. The anger had disappeared, but her face had gone from grief. “What about the girlfriend?” Leonie tried to ask the question as neutral as possible. “When we came home yesterday from your birthday, she was there, Suzanne. And she also kept eating. She was so interested, and she and Dad were always laughing at each other. I really have never seen Daddy so childish. After dinner, they cleaned up, and when I walked into the kitchen, they were kissing. Fucking, so dirty. So I closed the kitchen door hard and went to my room.” Leonie looked at Julia stunned. What a loser that man was! How did he make it up to three kids in the house kissing his girlfriend? She forced herself to react neutrally to Julia. “And then? Did he come to you?” she asked. “Yes, ten minutes later. And I didn't say anything to him. I told him to get out of my room. This morning he was kissing me, but I only looked at him angry.”

“Oh, girl, and now you've been walking around with it all day!” Leonie wrapped her arms around Julia. Julia gave herself up and hung up against her mother. She was tired and exhausted. “Tea?” Leonie finally asked. “Yes, with a large piece of chocolate,” Julia added. Leonie saw that a smile broke through on Julia's face.

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