During the last 13 months (or even longer), Nadine and I received so much support from family and friends all over the world: cards, e-mails, blog-comments, phone-calls, little gifts and helpful visits. I think it is the time now to say a big THANK YOU! What you did always meant very much to us.

I still receive cards and stuff but their content has of course changed. I’m grateful for all condolences and consolations made, but I don’t want to go into detail now and will come back to them later.

Please let me refresh my invitation to Nadine’s funeral service on February 10th at 11 a.m. at the Waldfriedhof Stuttgart-Degerloch.  Make sure you get the adress right, there’s more than one Waldfriedhof in and around Stuttgart. I hope to see as many of you as possible there.

Tonight it will be one week since Nadine left us and I just realized that I never showed the most beautiful picture of her on this blog. And I too realized that I never used the song called “Nadine” an old friend told me about once. Strange, isn’t it?

I’ve been to the goodbye-room for three days in a row now. Today, I was the last one to close it’s door at 4 p.m. and I was also the last one who held her hand. It definitely needed to be like this. Later, her coffin will be sealed and stored away for burning at the beginning of next week. From now on, I will never see her beautiful face again and I must rely on photos and memories. I don’t know wether I can bear this or not.