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Bonus for both: A German programme connects kids with ‘wish grandparents’

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Matilda (left) and May play and do gymnastics on a rope. Both came together through the 'Wunschgrosseltern', or wish grandparents project. — Photos: MONA WENISCH/dpa

COLOURFUL building blocks are scattered across the living room floor and a thick rope for twirling dangles from the ceiling next to the dining table.

Traces of children are everywhere in 75-year-old Marita May’s house in Bad Ems, a town some 75km north-west of Frankfurt, but no children live there.

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