When she answered the phone, he identified himself as “an affected person.” He told her that his foster father had spoken with Kentler on the phone every week. In ways that Marco had never understood, Kentler, a psychologist and a professor of social education at the University of Hannover, had seemed deeply invested in his upbringing. Nentwig had assumed that Kentler’s experiment ended in the nineteen-seventies.
But Marco told her he had lived in his foster home until 2003, when he was twenty-one.
