June 26, 2012
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(written on 28 February 2012)
When I got home I found Daniel not at home but just in front of the house, appearing to look at a group of street musicians. The above picture was taken just after I had entered the apartment as he was still standing where he stood before. I knew that he wasn't watching the street musicians though. There was an altogether different reason why he was standing right there and why he was facing exactly that direction. Two years ago, Daniel returned to Amsterdam hoping to get in touch with Michel again. He had met Michel the previous New Year's Eve and that encounter had been so intense that a short lived relationship had started. Daniel never got in touch with Michel back in 2010 because Michel had made it clear he didn't want any contact.
But, as a bizarre twist of fate would have it, when I moved to my current apartment in early 2011, without knowing it, I moved to the building just about opposite of where Michel lives. By some weird coincidence, when I look out of my living room windows (or when Daniel peeks out of the windows from his air bed) I have a perfect view of Michel's building. His front windows and front door - all perfectly visible. Of course I couldn't care less about that but for Daniel it was a definite bonus to his Amsterdam visit. On days when the weather is nice, such as today, there's not even a reason for him to look at Michel's place from inside my studio, but instead he'll go to the Coffee Company store (yes, exactly next to Michel's building) or pretend to be watching street musicians when in actual fact his focus, driven by a feeling of love that has not subsided in the past two years, is a bit to the left... and just a couple of meters farther away.
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