Abandoned roads - Jos Lammers

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and devotion. Or hand it over, as everybody who entered the ashram had to do with all his money and other belongings. I tucked it under my shirt, mumbled that I still had to do something and left the once grand but now kind of crummy mansion at the Sarphatistraat that housed the ashram to go back into town. My brother lived nearby, just behind Frederiksplein. “Can this stay with you for now” I asked when I reached his floor. “Why is that” he asked. “No why’s. Just like that. Keep it for me.” He shrugged. “Okay, just put it in the cupboard.” Grimm’s Fairytales, the Tales of Hans Christian Andersen and four volumes of 1001 night stories were already there. Brought over after the big clean up of my room, since I couldn’t donate them with the rest of my stuff to the Salvation Army. I leafed a bit through the drawings of Anton Pieck in one of the 1001 night volumes. My brother had already written his name in the front, I saw. “I didn’t say take it”, I said and pointed at the letters at the bottom of page two. “Oh, well. I thought you didn’t want them anymore. It was all nonsense, wasn’t it” “Yeah, I’m gonna live there.” “Where At this guru place” I nodded. 34
I descended the stairs from his floor, so steep you almost fell over going down. Outside the sun was shining. It crossed my mind to drop by Janny’s. A few months before I had told her after years of love that I had to continue on my own. To be able to take this step, I only realized at that moment. And I walked back to the ashram. 35
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