"My father was once understandably furious. I had put the whole lot at hazard with my idiotic venture. And the girl may want to have been deported from Sweden at any time. But I was once already just as hopelessly in love with her as Lobach had been with her mother. I proposed to her and gave my father an ultimatum - both he established our marriage or he'd have to look for another fatted calf for the family business. He gave in. "
"But she died?"
"Yes, a long way too young, in 1958. She had a congenital coronary heart defect. And it turned out that I could not have children. And that is why my brother hates me. "
"Because you married her. "
"Because - to use his personal words - I married a filthy Jewish w***e. "
"But he's insane. "
"I couldn't have put it better myself. "
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