I’m standing in a bookstore in Amsterdam waiting for my turn. The woman in front of me asks if they also sell children’s books about Ajax. She adds apologetically: “because children are the only ones who currently believe in Ajax as the very best football club in the Netherlands.”
Then you should look at the fairy tales, is the advice she receives in plain Amsterdam.
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