Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Love Comes Back In Another Form

At the age of 40, Franz Kafka, who never married and had no children, was strolling through a Berlin park when he met a young woman who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll without success.

Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back for it.

The next day, when they still couldn't find the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll that said, "Please don't cry. I have taken a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.

So began a story that continued until the end of Kafka's life.

During the meetings, Kafka read the doll's carefully written letters with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought her the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.

"It looks nothing like my doll," the girl said.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote, " my travels, have changed me." the girl hugged the new doll and brought it home all happy.

A year later, Kafka died.

Many years later, the adult girl found a little letter inside the doll. In the little letter signed by Kafka, it said:

Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end love will come back in another form.

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