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In a German town that falls silent one day a week, two people found each other on that one day alone, on an old stone bridge, over a bread roll and a pocket phrasebook. The town was built on a rift between two brothers on the two banks of one small river. The river never divided its banks. What divided these two was quieter than water, on a day of snow.
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