A friend contacted me recently and told me, that Nadine just came to her mind quite powerfully. She asked me to visit the tree for her and put something there. So I cut one of the flowers Nadine had planted on our terrace once and sticked it to her nameplate. I was always wondering about who is still thinking of Nadine after more than five years. About me and her close family I have no doubts – but what about all those more loosely attached people? Well, seems like I’ve got an answer to this question now.

As far as I’m concerned, Nadine is still very present – even though I don’t think of her on a daily basis  and I’m not visiting her gravesite that often anymore. I do a lot of bikeriding and stop by there every now and then, but somehow she’s still on my mind all the time. Sometimes in the backyard, and sometimes in the frontrow.