In the end Anna and Tom would convince themselves that they were the ones really building towards something – something as yet hypothetical but that became more and more tangible as the months passed. After a few days of overeating and underworking, they would always be relieved to return to Berlin. They loved their families and were nostalgic for the streets they had grown up on, but that fondness would quickly give way to a feeling of stasis and estrangement. Entering the departures terminal, each time they would glance at themselves in the glass doors and think back to the picture they had
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