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‘I liked us. I fell for him, with all his features and curls, but it was mainly about what we were together’
Ⓒ Maartje Geels
Eberhard van der Laan passed away in 2017; perhaps the most beloved mayor that Amsterdam ever knew. In addition to hundreds of thousands of mourning Amsterdammers, Van der Laan also left behind a wife and five children, two of which were from a previous marriage. Widow Femke converted her grief into columns and eventually a book that was mainly about mourning. Now, three years after the publication of City full of balloons, then there is the ‘continuation’: At the edges of the day.