Peter van Wermeskerken

I was born just like you. Difference: I was most likely earlier here. Today, 23 March 2025, marks 22 leap years and everything in between, plus 83 days since I was born. You have to come out on a Sunday. At the end of WWII, I was diagnosed with epilepsy. That ruined my education. Anyway, I was still the best at school in the Dutch language. At 14, I wrote my first reports for Dad's local newspaper. At 20, I was co-winner in a national essay contest on the Dutch agriculture in the EU common market. At 21, my career as a journalist began at a socialist newspaper. Several papers would follow before I arrived as an economic writer in 1970 at the second-largest Dutch daily AD at Rotterdam. Because of my success in reporting, I became chief. That means more money and less fun. With retirement, that came to an end in October 2001. I got into local politics, but I think I'm too honest for these things. My wife Marga convinced me to write a book on my experiences as a double agent between communist East Germany and Holland. Marga was excellent at selling them.