A(!t Christi! ne's f(`un?e[ral, %he(r fos/%ter s;on suddenly@@( shows up, a?[+ grown-up man w!,*it((h w
-)hom the family has bee^n out $,]:of ! contact /fo/r! *!quite,, some time:/ . He brought a letter, st%%*ating t%`hat Christi;/ne #wa#:nts to be b^+ur$^ied in Wentelen^
, to th) e bewild=\$-er `]ment of her biol:ogic]al c@hi@; %ldren:, an
)d even `#more so ? to that? of. her hu-`sband*@`. In ad dition to that, all =$th#e re?(.lati[:;ves are su_?rprised= that the foster s,:^on of+\ Christ=ine_( apparently maintained __a co rrespon:/dence %!with Christine,
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ver* !thel[ess, Christine's las]).t \ w!:!/i?.\sh is re\^spe-]`cted, a *n,,![d?*,
they dec-/ided to bu\r/y -!her in .#We$[]ntelen, and wish to do so+* tradit/]%=ionally, me#anin^ g: walking be$\$hind the^^ h]earse. Duri;+ng  ,
a w`@alk of several days, all t.+h*e rela %tive%,!s (foster *sisters, fos(/ter fa`ther, al$leged friends
:and re;(a?(l ones, the fost`*er son,/ 
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ers) have e
nough tim[\e to get t^o kn%:`ow each other bet)ter. B( ecau% se#+ in the en-
d they* have no).* other c onclusion than that
++ nobody_@+ re `ally knew anyone. Old*:^ i,[ntrigues a![re dug
up(, the foster sister.^s f$`inally learn why the fost er brother just disappear*ed- from the /=family, and they can b]egin ?.to develop a real %im@:age of th.)^e moth%e!(* r. Once Chri/-sti*: ne's _$.final restin /g place i)s reached )@@and sh_+e i/_s buried, all %
family .!ties, good and bad, are , s %hak=%en arou*@_
nd.