Karin was sitting in a café with her friends, talking about her childhood.
"My dad supposedly loved my mom very much at first. He gave his surname to my half-sister, who my mother had from a previous relationship, out of love for my mother, and it made a big impression on her. Then I came into the world. He played with me, did homework with my half-sister, went for walks with us. But then he met my mother's friend Rita and one day he left us for her. I was thirteen. Soon my parents divorced. We never saw him or Rita after that, although I did keep in touch with his parents - my grandmother and grandfather. They gave me presents, but not my father. His name was Kitt."
"Wait, are you saying you don't see your father?"
"I don't, and I don't even know what he's up to. But my Ed, he's a darling. He takes great care of the kids."
Meanwhile, Jodie was meeting with a psychologist. Her relationship towards men was troubled: "My mom Rita married Kitt, my father. She loved him unconditionally, and he loved her too. He didn't mind that my mom was unemployed. He even got a divorce for my mother and then supported her. My mother was very impressed, he was her hero. I remember my dad being good to me. He played with me, took me on trips, taught me how to ride a bike. I loved him. But he was gone a lot. My mom said he was all about freedom and independence. One day he left us because he met a classmate, Nina, at a school reunion and realized how unhappy he was with mom. Soon my parents divorced. I was eleven. I never saw him after that, although I did see his parents - my grandmother and grandfather. Sometimes I met my half-sister Karin there. She was a little older than me. But not my father, because my grandmother and grandfather used to pick me and Karin up themselves."
At the same time, Nina and her mother were on the phone: " I don't understand at all. I guess I really shouldn't have trusted Kitt. But I fell in love with him in high school, even if secretly, and he said that he did too, only he never dared to show it to me before the reunion. Look, he was deliberately trying to make Katie bond with him as strongly as possible, even though he knew she had a dad. He spent five whole years playing with her, laughing with her, taking her for walks. When she ran up to him yesterday, he pushed her away unexpectedly. I was shocked, I asked him for an explanation. He said all he wanted to do was make her love him more than she loved her own father. His feelings for Katie suddenly faded. Today he's moved in with some divorcee with a young son whose husband ran away. She offered Kitt to replace his absentee father. He confided in me that it had boosted his self-esteem."
Kitt knelt down to continue playing with the son of his new, much younger mistress. They were driving the latest model of the remote control Rover he had bought him in Germany all over the floor.
"Love, you are absolutely amazing, I can't even believe I met such a wonderful man with such a nice attitude towards children."
"Yeah, I have always loved children."
Little Andy was thrilled - a new friend who brings him toys. And he even knows how to make really cool engine noise.
"You're amazing." She hugged him and shoved her hands under his shirt. "And you're so sexy."
Kitt knew the evening would be wild. The idea was so intense that he had to take a shot to get over his excitement. Since that didn't help, he suggested, "What do you think, would Andy like us to give him a younger brother?"
Nine months later, Karin's little brother Jimmy was born. He was thirty years younger than her and she didn't even know about him.
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