It’s Nick’s birthday today and I’m going to leave for Tübingen and some celebrations now. I remember that special Sunday four years ago when Nadine received the good news and got very excited. We went to the hospital immediately to pay the little guy our respects – that’s when the picture above was taken. Nick has already asked if it would be possible for Nadine to return for his birthday. He had to be told that he must come to terms with me as an replacement.

Nick always reminds me a lot of Nadine: his innocence, purity, truthfulness and his dedication for everything he does. His naive inability of acting strategically or politically and his incapacity to suppose bad intentions behind somebody else’s actions. And the genuine joy he shows when someone does him a favour. Childlike features that Nadine kept throughout her whole life even though they made her highly vulnerable. But they also turned her into that good angel I could never do anything else but outright love and protect.

P.S.: The song is called “child like an angel” and is sung by Dave Kusworth.