The reverberation of hardship through life

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Chapter

“For Miriam, the past stopped when Charlie died... As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was”

4

“...The Wall and what it stood for still do exist. The Wall persists in the Stasi men’s minds as something they hope might one day come again, and in their victims’ minds too, as a terrifying possibility.”

23

“I think of the generational cycles of tragedy the Germans have been inflicting upon themselves”

27