Chapter 11

During these six months at Max Planck Institute in Germany, I returned to the lab, doing what I did best.

David, the senior researcher who invited me, sometimes remarked: “Why did you waste five years elsewhere? You could have made breakthroughs so much earlier.”

Recording data, I’d smile lightly: “Everyone takes detours sometimes. As long as you find your way back, it’s never too late, right?”

I’ll allow thorns to appear along my life’s long journey.

Even if crossing them leaves me bleeding.

But who can say this won’t lead to a completely new version of me?

As long as I have courage, I’ll boldly move forward, the endless path ahead still glittering.

so busy, too busy to remember

package from London – after

were two fully paid property contracts in

in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, another for our “marriage home” back home where I’d only

in Munich is quiet, especially at

couple of months here, I

hoped. I wasn’t too proud to admit I’d hoped he might suddenly appear before

me.

Munich’s streets, I wondered if one day I’d turn around and see

instinctively pull back the curtains,

him wouldn’t lose his mind

spent among ordinary

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