Until then no one had told Klaus anything about his uncle. After his grandmother’s death he asked Lotte about him. He wasn’t really very interested, but he felt so sad he thought it might take his mind off things. It had been a long time since Lotte thought about her brother and Klaus’s question came as something of a surprise. Around this time Lotte and Werner had gotten involved in real estate, which neither of them knew anything about, and they were afraid of losing money. So Lotte’s answer was vague: she told him that his uncle was ten years older than she was, more or less, and that the
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