Carsten got a brother as a 60-year-old - and lost him again

sometimes it is not that one lacks something, before you find it. That was how Carsten it with his family. Therefore, it fell to him never to look for his real father.

- Then, I have had an amazing father, I truly, he says of the man who here on the farm in Vium north of the Dial married his housekeeper and adopted her young son.

Carsten is one of the danes who live in number 9. Photo: Ernst van Norde
Number 9

You have a history. Your neighbor has a history. Your bus driver has a history.

All people have a story, and those we would like to tell in the Extra Leaf.

In the series ’Number 9’ we take around in Denmark - in the big cities, small cities and small hamlets and knocking on the door of a random human being who lives in number 9, and ask them to tell an important story from their lives.

do you Live even in number 9? Or do you know a man who lives in number 9 - which has a history that deserves to be told? Write to us at nummer9@eb.dk

today, live Carsten in his childhood home with his wife, Mette, while their three children have flown the nest. Their youngest suffers from a rare, hereditary eye disease, and it got Carsten to take an interest in his biological origins.

I found my father. It was just not there, the disease came from. In return I got a brother as a 60-year-old smiles, before he suddenly looking out at the havedøren and blinks with the eyes. They are full of water.

- We only managed to get one and a half years together. He died two years ago in a traffic accident. That jumped a deer out in front of the car.

Carsten blow-off. Hold on kaffekruset and takes a sip. They were contemporaries, and although they first learned to know each other as adult men associated the quickly a broderbånd.

- never before have I experienced to have with another human being. Never. When we were together, he could say a phrase, and it was exactly what I would have said.

Now Carsten is an only child again. One, but not alone. In fact there are so many people in his life, that it is hard to make time for it all.

- in a few years we will go on the pension. We are pleased well enough. There are a thousand things we need.

Until then, work Carsten as falckredder. A job he has had for 37 years, but in his time he became a trained mechanic.

- I thought the electrician could be anything, so mom drove me up to the electrician, but he was damned sure not at home the day. So we went across the road to the mechanic, and then I got an apprenticeship there.

Carsten is looking forward to life as a pensioner. Photo: Ernst van Norde

Carsten laughs. Life is full of coincidences. He just hope, chance lets him be a bit yet.

- We plan to stay as long as we can - hopefully for many years. But you never know. I have had a few blood clots, so it can happen all of a sudden.

- Actually I would prefer from here on the way. I will not sit by and not be able to a damn thing. But 63 years of age, it is as yet too early.
Blue book

Carsten Svenningsen, Vium by the Slice.

63 years old, married with Mette.

you Have three children and a grandson.

Working as a falck rescue. Has been issued a UN soldier in Cyprus.

trained mechanic.

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With a daughter's sailboat to the end of the world

- My son believes good enough, he caught a larger one, laughing Carsten on fish from the caribbean sea. Private

Slice-the region has plenty of water, but Carsten and family are landlubbers. Or was. For the previous summer, his daughter Vibeke out on a trip around the world in his own sailboat.

- It is a love the daughter I have, she looks like her mother. She gets all sorts of ideas, and they should just be brought out in life.

First seemed Carsten, that it was crazy of her to say its good job in Maersk up, but he ended up with to enjoy the good of his daughter's adventure.

- We sailed with in four months from Tobago through the panama canal to the galápagos islands. It was the life.

do you Live even in number 9? Or do you know a man who lives in number 9 - which has a history that deserves to be told? Write to us at nummer9@eb.dk