Uppsala University is the setting associated with Sofia Zetterlund’s move into adult life under that identity. She applied and was accepted, spent five years living in a student apartment, and later moved to Stockholm. The university years are also bound to a deeper division: Sofia’s emergence coincided with Victoria Bergman being pushed out of conscious memory, even as that separation remained unstable.

Application and Student Years

Sofia’s application appears in a vulnerable conversation. She tells a man that she has applied to Uppsala University; as tears rise, she looks into her cup and stirs it, avoiding the appearance of weakness and the possibility that he might try to comfort her. The small gesture places the application within a moment of guarded self-reliance rather than uncomplicated anticipation.

After being accepted, Sofia lived in a student apartment for five years. The account gives no further details about her studies or campus life, but identifies this period as a substantial stage before she moved to Stockholm.

A Place in Sofia’s Divided History

Uppsala University is connected not only to education and relocation but also to the formation of Sofia’s separate identity. When she was twenty, she was strong enough to take over Victoria’s life, put it behind her, and begin her own. At university, Sofia Zetterlund was the person who concealed Victoria in the same way Victoria’s father’s abuse had been forgotten. Yet the account makes that erasure incomplete: Sofia wiped out Victoria’s existence while simultaneously losing control of her. The university years therefore mark both a beginning and an unstable act of separation.