Their First Night as Anna and Julius

Medium.com | May 11, 2021

In a photograph that does not exist, taken after the wedding ceremony on Schopenauer Strasse, Julius and Anna are in a private compartment aboard the night train to Trieste. From there they will travel onward to Cesenatico, an Italian resort town just south of Venice. In the morning they might catch a glimpse of the mountains he loves to climb. Julius tells her that there are coffee houses just like those in Vienna where the Triestini will speak some German.

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