漫漫`
殡途

　　At  Chris ;*tine's :[funera%/]:l^, h\er foster- so]+n suddenly- =
shows  up((, a grown-up man wi% th:( whom the family has been[ ^^ out of ]%contac@t for quite some ti%#me. H=)e brought a letter, st[#atin$,g th) ! at Chri+= *stine w$\ants:%) to % be bu-`ri)ed in =_+Wentel)=en, to
@^ th/e bewi-lderment of -` %her biolo
%gica l ,-childre ]n, -@?and even more % `so t_ ,o `\.that^. of her
 hu]sband. In add*. iti
on to that,)$ [-all the relatives are surpris^.ed that the foster son of $Christ_ine appare-_ntly maintained a corr espondence with Ch_ r.:ist
*-ine. Never=.theless, Christine's la(s,t wish ]@+is+# respe%cted, and# t=*hey+ d_(ecided to bury her in[ Wentelen, and *,/?wish ,to do] [so t$radit:i onall),!y, me
`anin-%g: ] walking behind the hearse. During a wal;*+k of ).s#everal days, all the relatives (fo?ste],%]r siste $rs, foster fat*(her,  `al, leged!* -]\*f`riends !![and rea)l on_es, the fo/^ster*-+ son, l:overs^( ) have enoug#h time to get t?o know,( each *=other be` !tter., Becaus@_e [in the end, they_= have no other con=clusio+$n
 than tha t nobod_,`y really knew anyone. Old*` intrigues;,*(\ are _[`;du#^g up, th-`e foste(^ r_/ sisters fi =)nall`
y +learn why t]./he foster br!other `^`ju;`)st disappe!are-d) from the .family, a=$%nd they can begin to devel%op a real_ image of .$^th=-e mo_==ther./ On+\ce ]@Christine's fina;-l restin
%g pla\;ce is reache\
=d and she is b\uried, +all f
/\amily  ties, good[_ and _,bad,[@ are@; shake ?n aroun^^d.