Chapter 54: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer (1)
October 3rd, 1990.
Germany was reunified.
[East and West Germany fully reunified after 45 years of division since 1945...]
["What belongs together will now grow together" – revisiting Willy Brandt’s speech]
[The Federal ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) Republic of Germany reclaims the five states that had disappeared! One year after the fall of the Berlin Wall...]
I enjoyed the news with my morning coffee.
This moment, now fully embedded in my routine, was quite satisfying.
I liked seeing the past gradually diverge under my influence, and at the same time, there was a kind of nostalgia, like returning to a hometown after decades, at the great forks in history that remained unchanged.
‘Mm, nice aroma.’
– Sluurp.
The scent of coffee and the morning sunlight matched beautifully.
It felt like my personal chef, now acting as a barista too, was getting better by the day. At first, I used to drink it with ice here, but...
