When Ronny Elbe was working on this sign, years ago in his youth after the previous sign finally fell to pieces in a spring storm, Ingrid Potter and her dogs passed by on the street, and she looked at him, and her cold pale eyes met his tired black ones, and they smiled at the same instant, these two who seldom smiled, and something passed between them.

It was Ingrid Potter's daughter Freida that gave you the first of the messages, that night at the Playhouse, the night your car was stolen and the police were so unaccountably hostile. Next August, Freida will marry Pietr in the Chapel of Our Lady of Light, outside the city.
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