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2. The unkempt European:

Hello, my name is Michael Stach and I am 27 years old. I am from Leipzig, which is located in Germany, and now I live in Bombay, India.

I had a really nice childhood in the first 9 years, but at the age of 10 my parents argued very often and two years later they got divorced. Me and my two sisters, who are 2 and 3 years younger than me, moved away from Leipzig with my mother. Our new home Berlin had a bad influence on me. As I look at my childhood from today, I have to say I had wrong friends. They made me be a thief and a criminal. After getting caught while I was robbing out a local candyshop, my mother sent me into a ?orphanage? ( can’t find the right word for “Heim”). This really was the best thing my mum could have done, because the contact to my friends broke up. I got to know new ones, which had a better influence on me. At the age of 17 I fell in love with a girl in the orphanage. We were together for near 1 year, but then she were adopted by an English family. Without her the life in the orphanage wasn’t the same anymore. I missed her so much that I ran away with my saved money, took a boat to England, travelled to London, where the family of my girlfriend lived, and searched for her nearly one month. With no money and confidence left I accepted a job offer, which brought me to India, leaving everything behind. Arriving in Bombay I worked for an British governor. He was a great man and treated me very good. But after his death I lost my job and had to leave my home. Now I live on the streets in Bombay since 3 years. The only thing that reminds me of my old life is Gulliver, the monkey which gave me the governor before his death.