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.
