Old doll

Once, while walking through the Steglitz city park outside Berlin, Franz Kafka saw a crying girl. She cried because she lost her doll. The writer began to console the child. “But your doll was not lost at all,” he suddenly said, “she just left, I just saw her and talked to her. She firmly promised me to send you a letter. Be here tomorrow at this time, I will bring it to you. " The girl stopped crying - and the next day Kafka did bring a letter in which the doll told about her travel adventures. From this began a real puppet correspondence, which lasted several weeks and ended only when the sick poet had to change his place of residence, having gone on a last trip: Prague - Vienna - Kirling. In the end, he did not forget, in the midst of all the commotion of such a sad move for him, to send the child a doll, presenting it as an old, lost one, which simply changed its appearance somewhat from everything that had been experienced in distant countries.