„The first thing we hung in the new house. We still are not on the wall ourselves.”

Youssef and Lotte got the keys in June. Of the seventeen boxes, one did not go to the garage: the one with the portrait of Nout, their ragdoll, who supervised the move largely from inside a laundry basket.

It hangs in the hallway, on the only wall that was still empty at the time. There is more up there now. Nout has been up the longest.