Catherine followed him to Berlin.  She went because it was far away from Texas and far away with him.  She’d been seeing Nathan for the past six months, when she decided to go.  He’d asked her to come along as his assistant, to help Nathan collect data on which frozen food companies had soared in the former GDR.  And so they’d left, together, some three months later.  Their relationship was long enough to have birthed a baby.  Sometimes she wondered what it might look like.

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