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The Place Where It All BeganIt was a harbor.Not loud, not shiny—just water, breathing,and lights staying awake longer than the people at night. The Elbe carried stories,salty and heavy,and the North taught me earlythe silence between words. As a child, I stood there,too small for the world,but big enough for longing.The wind smelled like departureand something yet to be named. Later came the other sea.Greece.Sun on stone, voices in the air,nights that were not dark but deep.A South that opens the heart,as the North tests it. Between these shoresmy view of the world grew.Harbor and night,childhood and distance,Elbe and Aegean. Perhaps everything begins right there:at a placethat holds us—and at the same time, sends us away.