Lotte wasn’t a good reader, whatever that means, and if every once in a while she bought a book it was usually the kind written by actors when they retire or when it’s been a long time since they’ve made a movie, or biographies of famous people, or those books by TV personalities, supposedly full of interesting stories but in fact with no stories at all. This time, however, by mistake or because she was in a hurry not to miss her flight, she bought a book called The King of the Forest, by someone called Benno von Archimboldi. The book, no more than one hundred and fifty pages long, was about a
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