My daughter of 16 sees the birthday card on the table. She reads the numbers out loud and asks in amazement: “Who turns 90?!”
I explain that it is the acquaintance that I visit regularly. She looks at me for a moment and then says: “Oh, is that that chick from Haaswijk?”
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 28, 2021
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