Sorry, Kata · the Oranienstraße WG

Where & when

• WG in Kreuzberg, Oranienstraße · Berlin · Germany ~2016–2017 the small room next to the kitchen

About them then

Kata · about 28 then

My flatmate in the Kreuzberg WG: tall, loud, always barefoot, with a laugh that carried through two closed doors. She cooked for everyone on Sundays and kept a plant collection that took over the whole kitchen.

Who I was then

The quiet flatmate from the smallest room, who always forgot to buy toilet paper.

Why I'm writing

To say sorry · Just hoping to know they're well

We had an argument about money in the spring, and it got uglier than either of us meant. Two weeks later I moved out while you were at work and left only a note about the key. You never wrote back, and I never wrote again. Months later I heard the whole flat had stayed friends without me. I think about those Sunday dinners almost every week, and about the fact that I never said sorry.

Passed on by 2 · reached step 2 · 1 keeping an eye out

Could this letter be about you? This is me