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Kaatje is the girl next door. When I look out of my window during nice weather, I can see her playing in the garden. Kaatje has a velvet burgundy-coloured dress for Sundays and a cotton one for weekdays. She has flaxen hair done up in tiny little pigtails, and bright-blue eyes.
Kaatje has a loving mother, but her father has died. Kaatje's mother is a washerwoman. Sometimes she's gone during the day, cleaning other people's houses, and when she comes home at night she does the laundry for 'her' people. At eleven o'clock she is still beating the rugs and hanging row after row of washing on the line.