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furneral of a city: chapter 28
After Molly left to work, Rosalinda gave Paula dinner, that already was prepared for Molly's daughter by a personal cook and went into her room to make another phone call and consultate another couple. Her husband was still at work and so Paula was left alone to do whatever she want. At first the 11 year old girl sat down at Rosalindas Fazioli piano and played the only two pieces she once learned from a school friend. "River flowers in you" and "Für Elise". But after she played several minutes she got bored again. She walked through some of the long floor ways and watched some of the new paintings Alfred hanged out a few days ago, but as she couldn't understand, what Alfred liked so much in the landscape paintings of Jacob van Ruisdael and all the other artists with unpronounciable names. She couldn't understand why Alfred memorized the biographies of almost 100 artists from medieval times begining and New the background stories of so many paintings and was so fascinated by paintings. For her he was always just an old mayor who constantly argued with her mum and spoiled her with gifts like clocks, expensive toys or necklaces. Paula olready walked for at least three times through the same corridor. She was bored as always and thought about going outside, but remembers that Rosalinda asked her to stay inside, so that she would not disturbe the builders in the garden. Who were building a sauna hut there. Paula found out, that the door to Alfred's office was unlocked and although she knew, she should enter Alfred's office withouth allowence, but she was so bored that she still did it. It wasn't the most interesting room to be honest but last time she had entred the room, she had noticed a shelf with almost 80 photo albums ordered from 1950 to 2015. Going back to times several years before even Alfred's birth to the most recent ones. It wasn't easy to deceid on which to take out first. So Paula decided to make Ehne Mehne Miste. Her finger pointed on the album with the ingravement 1971. When more than an hour later Rosalinda finally found Molly's daughter in Alfred's office, Paula was still looking through the photographs of the same album. She was looking at one of Alfred's and Rosalindas wedding photos.
"Darlin, what are you doing here?"
"Is it your wedding photograph"
"Yes, it actually is. Can you give it me please?"
"Is that Alfred?"
"Yes."
"How old is he on this photograph?"
"He's 17."
"He seems older."
"I believe, it's because he was from a  diplomatic family and the clothes he had to wear made him look older and more serious than he was. They way he spoke, his way of thinking. He was in a surround...