A few years have passed since Nelly Sue Edelmeister fell in love with Prince William, the future King of Great Britain. Looking back, she tells what happened back then.

The story began on Monday after the tragic car accident in which William's mother, Princess Diana, was killed. The news spreads like wildfire around the globe, but Nelly, a model student and aspiring space scientist, doesn't notice the tragic death of the princess.Because she is usually somewhere else with her thoughts, unless her nose is deep in a book.

Self-ironically, she describes herself as "nerd", << a super brain with zero appeal >>: << When Prince William came into my life, I was an incredibly serious thirteen-year-old, a spindly Berlin schoolgirl with a heavy braid on the neck and thick glasses the nose and a brain the size of the Encyclopædia Britannica. >>

Benny, her loving, attentive father, accents her with all her quirks. Nelly's mother Lucy, on the other hand, a resolute New Yorker Jewess with strong charisma (<< she is tough >> says her husband, << made in USA. One hundred percent chutzpah. >>), has less indulgence with her daughter.

She just wished Nelly was a normal girl, less unworldly, would behave <>, find a friend like Anton Weißenberger, the rabbi's son, and prepare for her upcoming bat mitzvah. Nelly's Bat Mitzvah, the ceremonial reception that introduces young people as members to the Jewish community, is scheduled to take place in eight weeks.

In the life of the future scientist there is no place for God, religion or the Torah, which leads to constant friction between Nelly and her mother. But, as she herself says, Nelly is not the only victim of Lucy's pointy tongue: << After visiting Berlin in the early 1980s, she found so much to complain about in the city that she decided to stay here and make an art out of her nagging to make. >>

Lucy complains about everything, about the high rents, about the rats in the basement (which her husband claims are mice), about the dog piles on the sidewalks and and and. Most of all, she complains about her husband, a clarinetist. Benny looks irresistibly good and is an excellent musician, but rarely has a job.

Lucy is therefore forced to make a living from the family's income as a journalist.

Lucy is therefore forced to make a living from the family's income as a journalist. and therefore constantly nags at him. Nelly would hardly be able to cope with the eternal disputes between her parents if it were not for the fortunate seventy-year-old Ris Ginsberg, an old friend of the family who has lived with the noble master's spacious apartment since her husband's death. She is Nelly's first point of contact for problems of all kinds, her best friend and always there for her.

Despite a tragic past overshadowed by the Holocaust, Risa, who comes from Poland, has remained a devout Jew. She never talks about her experiences during the war, but the sparkling glass stone that she wears on a necklace must have something to do with it.

On the way to school on that Monday, Nelly is so lost in thought that she hardly notices the group of young punks hanging around the street near her apartment. In the bus that takes her to her German-American schedule, she simply fades out the archenemy of her archenemy Yvonne Cohen, raving about << Little Miss Pololarity >>.

She prefers to delve into a book. Nevertheless, Nelly is not completely hidden, how two somewhat older classmates snuggle together in the back of the bus. She ponders what it would be like to kiss a boy. Danny Diller, for example. He had it at a school performance by Thornton Wilders Our little Town moved to tears with his great performance when he said goodbye to his young wife Emily at the grave in the role of George ...

Nelly is torn from her reverie when Pia Pankewitz, a classmate, gets on the bus.

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