Though Nadine’s fate was terrible, she rarely complained. We had our incredible sad moments, but complaining seemed to be mostly alien to her. I once wrote here that she was no fighter and with that I meant fighting against something. Her strength was to endure things, no matter how injust or undeserved they were. Which requires another kind of fighting spirit and that’s what my brave darling girl showed throughout her ordeal.

When it became clear that our journey together would end way too soon, she said she wished that we have met earlier in life. I used the weekend to search for an old ticket to the movie “Following”, but I couldn’t find it anymore. The movie itself stems from 1998, but we must have seen it in 2006 or maybe 2005, when a friend of mine took me to the cinema and brought her fellow student from Tübingen with her. We went for a drink afterwards and it took some time before we met again and became a couple in 2009.

Yes Nadine, I also wish I had met you earlier!