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I got it not from my mama

• Creepy man on the train to Marburg (in German): Are you Russian?
• Me: No, I’m American.
• CMOTTTM: Something indecipherable in German
• Me, in German: I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
• CMOTTTM: Do you speak French?
• Me: I speak some French, and Russian.
• CMOTTM, in Russian: You speak Russian?
• Me: Yes.
• CMOTTM: Your mother or father was Russian?
• Me: No. I just took it at university and studied abroad. I’m not Russian.
• CMOTTM: You speak very well.
• Me: Thank you very much.
• CMOTTM: I think probably your mother or father was Russian.
• Me: …No, they are American.
• CMOTTM (carrying my suitcase, which I am letting him do because, listen, that thing had to make it onto the platform and down the stairs somehow): I live in Kassel. Have you been there?
• Me: Yes, I went for the art show.
• CMOTTM: Will you ever go back to Kassel?
• Me: No. I went once.
• CMOTTM: You will never go back to Kassel? I live there.
• Me: Nope. Never.