Author Katja Lewina knows what can go wrong in love. She collects breakup stories. This time Charlotte reports how the pain of separation led her to take revenge, for which she was immediately ashamed.
“And does anyone here have a bad one other than me Breakup story in stock?” I ask the room. It’s the first time I’ve asked my audience to do something so revealing. I’m used to emotionally undressing in front of the whole world. But others feel completely different I know. I feel a drop of sweat running down my neck: Will someone trust? “No problem, I can wait,” I joke. A few pseudo-confident jokes later, a few people have actually found each other to talk about their broken loved ones. And report it at some point she herself, a woman in her mid-20s. Let’s call her Charlotte.
“I am the best example of how karma will strike back sooner or later,” she begins. “And in my case, quite directly.”