Her name was Frau Halt and she epitomized being a German woman. More specifically, she had a career as a local civil servant, a peculiar interest in leather belts and teddy bears and she loved zucchini for how they reminded her of a holiday fling in Zimbabwe. Apart from that, she possessed all the qualities of a specific type of German woman found all across the Heimat.
She was punctual to a tee, meticulously pronounced words like “diszipliniert” and truly wished things in general could be boxed in structures of exclamation marks. She believed in rules and the importance of adhering to them. Like so many others, she considered it a duty of hers to point out the shortcomings of others, and considered it a remarkable offence to let things slide no matter how trivial the circumstance. Her collection of 19th Century sex toys, however, was unrivalled.
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