Christiane F My Second Life File

She doesn’t intervene. She learned long ago that you cannot pull someone out of a fire by shouting from the shore.

Dinner is at seven. Her daughter will roll her eyes. Lukas’s new girlfriend will ask awkward questions. And Christiane F., former ghost of Bahnhof Zoo, will pass the potatoes and laugh at the right moments. christiane f my second life

For thirty years, she held the hands of old people who were afraid to die. She cleaned bedsores. She listened to confessions. And every single day, she looked at the medicine cabinet and chose not to open it. She doesn’t intervene