In Simcoe, Ontario, I stayed with a cousin I hadn’t seen in forty years. That was possible because all the children had left and there were plenty of beds to sleep on and I only needed one. That cousin used to be at the distribution office in Zwolle during the war and once you’ve been a civil servant, any other work falls hard, so he had just joined the insurance company in Canada. Now he doesn’t do anything anymore. As long as the hundreds of people he insured in earlier years keep paying their premiums, he gets a percentage of that. That’s all right with my cousin Jan Dekker!