Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Dear family van de Kerkhof,
I have met Hans once in my life: he and his mother visited us in Helmond in the Netherlands. Maybe there was more family from Canada but that I don’t remember. We were children and slept in the same double bed , He wanted me te tell a fairy-tale before sleeping, but I didn’t speak any word of English and he didn’t speak any word of Dutch. So I decided to tell a story in my dialect: Helmonds! And, you know …… he understood the whole fary-tale!!! He was 5 and I was 7. Very much indeed, children have there own way to cummunicate, that’s very clear.
I hope Hans had a nice life in Canada together with you.
I wish all of you much strength at the farewell of Hans.
With kind regards,
Toon van de Kerkhof.
