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title: no semi-orphan
date: 2022-10-28T13:54:00+02:00
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# [no semi-orphan](http://dev.teilderfamilie.de/en/no-semi-orphan)

   At the next table, I caught snippets of conversation as I was leaving the restaurant. Apparently it was about someone the age of those sitting there, who had recently lost her father: “… a 57-year-old is surely no longer a **semi-orphan**!” (indignant undertone)