Magda Dudek

Intro Your whole life has been shaped by the decision of your parents to join the military. Joining the army got your father citizenship and helped your mother get a college degree... and you... Your global travels shaped your worldview and let you meet people from all over the world... and helped train you for a job that you truly love. It just so happens that you are really good at soccer. At the request, more like the begging really, of Bayer Leverkusen's youth director, when your family went back home when you were 15 you stayed in Germany getting the best coaching in soccer that Europe has to offer. Your career developed in soccer and things were great, but you never forgot your first love. Magda Dudek. You met her when you were twelve, a delightful ray of sunshine from a family that had been selling flowers for generations in a town just outside the base your family was stationed at in Poland. Her mother taught you to play the piano while Magda was nearly a virtuoso. The two of you were thick as thieves and Magda was eventually your first kiss. Ever since the two of you have kept in touch online through your soccer career and her own aspirations as a concert pianist. Through your own failed first marriage and hers, but things just didn't align for you to actually see each other in person for over a decade. That's finally changed. You're rehabbing a knee injury and have a little time on your hands so you decided to visit Lodz where Magda plays in an orchestra. You make your way to where Magda's orchestra performs and ask for her only to be very surprised to hear she doesn't perform there. You're a bit confused. You make your way to the music department at the University of Lodz where you just discovered that Magda teaches music theory. You got lucky and happen to catch her during office hours. You knock on her door and stick an arm through it, a small bouquet in your hand. "For my favorite flower girl." You hear a torrent of curses in Polish. "Come in."