My other friends called her " My shadow" but I shrugged it off and changed the subject. Whenever a boy would try and talk to me, she would act so funn... towards me,. Prompting me to ask if she likes the guy, and she would say how wrong he was for me. One day I got a card in the mail, and it was unmarked and the card said " I've got a crush on you" I couldn't wait to show Amanda so we could figure out which boy it could be. When I showed her the card we talked about it all day trying to figure. She insisted on speaking it at least one day a week at home but also when visiting with her grandfather and Veronika. Yes, Robert Rosenzweig and Veronika Langner had decided that 49 years of separation had been more than enough. In no time at all, Veronika liquidated all her assets back in Germany and returned to Bethesda with two suitcases and a teller check representing her lifetime savings. I admired her for the courage it took to burn all the bridges to follow her heart.Their wedding in. Buer was the only one at Aza and Harri’s wedding who I knew really well, certainly being counted amongst my closest friends.You know what it is like at university; after a few drinks and weed, you debate the night away. And Buer and I had more than our share of intoxicated conversations about the meaning of life. She too had been special for me after Joseph died, making sure I wasn’t alone and, as a fellow member of the bisexual club, helping me deal with lust; yet instinctively understanding. It took some getting used to when her last helper died and she was forced to accept the fact that she had to get a Spanish speaker or a Russian since that was all that would do the job. Her last maid was almost a second mother, she was with Margaret's mother when Margaret was born and she came with Margaret when she got married. Margaret still got sad when she allowed herself to think of Ella for too long. The Mexicans were quiet and discrete and did a good job of keeping the place up, but.