He threw back his head and laughed heartily. “I am sorry. You seem so comfortable in Dresden I sometimes forget you are new here. I thought when you learned my family name you understood.” At my blank expression he actually looked embarrassed. “We own the grocery store. Several hundred of them, all through Saxony. And these last years now in Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt, too, a little bit,” he added, naming two of the German states that border Saxony.
“The Wunderlichs have run grocery stores for many generations. Someday my two brothers and I will be in charge, but for now my father is the head. He insisted we all go to university and explore other things, but food is in our blood. We all started by sweeping floors and putting food on the shelves. I was sent to your store because the sale
