As a child, Christine Preißmann memorized the new flight schedules for Frankfurt Airport, the phone book for the small town in Hesse where she lived, and the sequence of huts at the Christmas market. She also loved the always predictable course of the clearly structured Sunday services. Other children, on the other hand, were of little interest to them, as they threatened to mess up the order of their toys.

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