Essen
Just three encounters - and Dirk and Kristina already had a profound and intense friendship. That chance meeting in Spain had been followed by a long and absorbing conversation, and a happily telepathic sympathy. The process of their coming to know each other was shot through with the lightness of being.
In the days when I used to see Kristina and Dirk I used to wish I could be like Dirk, to go through life with his ease and spontaneity. In those days I used to ask myself whether I could change, or whether after thirty years on this earth I had already been so formed that everything would remain unchanged. In those days I used to feel that Kristina could change me.
I went to call upon this friendship.
