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Ten minutes later, her phone buzzed. A reply.

“Wow, that book! I lost the CD too back then. But wait—I found a solution. Check your email.”

So Lena did what any broke language student would do. She opened her laptop and typed into the search bar:

Lena had a problem. Her German exam was in three weeks, and her listening comprehension was terrible. She owned the Tangram Aktuell 1 textbook, a worn, coffee-stained copy she’d bought from a flea market in Berlin. It was perfect except for one thing: the audio CD was missing.