Sie waren von Kindheit an instinktiv Freunde gewesen, seit damals, als er ihr ein Übungsboot geschenkt hatte, das er im Tischlerunterricht gemacht hatte.
They had been instinctive friends from childhood, from the time he had given her a practice boat he had made in his woodworking class.
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