They were on good terms for two months after that. Then, of course, they fell out again over the heating system.
But it was nice while it lasted, as Anita said. The tenants came and went in the following years,
most with a surprising amount of forbearance and acceptance from Ove and Rune.
Perspective can make a great deal of difference to people’s reputations.
One summer halfway through the 1990s, a woman moved in with a chubby boy of about nine, whom Sonja and Anita immediately took to their hearts.
The boy’s father had left them when the boy was newborn, Sonja and Anita were told.
A bull-necked man of about forty who lived with them now, and whose breath the two women tried to ignore for as long as possible, was her new love.
He was rarely at home, and Anita and Sonja avoided asking too many questions.
They supposed that the girl saw qualities in him that they, perhaps, did not understand.
“He has taken care of us, and you know how it is, it’s not easy being a single mother,” she said with a brave smile at some point,
and the women from the neighboring houses left it at that.
The first time they heard the bull-necked man shouting through the walls
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