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‘smuggle’ citizens…

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‘into other realms’

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‘not denying…

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certain things, implying others’

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‘obediently…

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pulled their cards’ out

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stop ‘thinking…

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about the past’

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5
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‘I dislike being…

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made aware that my heart is just a small pump’

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‘the willingness of…

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Germans to subject themselves to authority.’

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‘socialism’ ‘can continue to…

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exist…regardless of the miseries of history’

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‘stream of…

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passengers…weaving head-down’

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their life memories and a childhood that…

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‘no one can take away’

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10
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‘a look…

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at that Wall of theirs’

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‘started wondering if…

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maybe it was all feasible’

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‘tempted…

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to ignore her’.

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13
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‘her kindness…

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warms me already’

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‘one or other…

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of you could be one of them’

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‘a harsh, cruel world’

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‘there was no way to reverse the process’.

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it is hard to…

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‘be sure of anything, of anyone’

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17
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‘maybe I’m…

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remembering it wrong’

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18
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‘hero…

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and criminal status’

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‘a shameless…

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moral gymnast’

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‘raging…

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shouting, swinging his fists’

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21
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‘if she had…

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a future it was over there’

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‘we made…

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jokes about’.

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‘we hadn’t…

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given it much thought’.

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‘the confines’

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‘no one would stop’ them

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‘I kept going – even…

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when I heard Ruth’s urgent whisper to me to come back’.

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‘rework your past…

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…until it is shiny and smooth’

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‘we talked only about…

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the less important things’

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28
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‘long-term aspirations’

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his world ‘could all change again’

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29
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‘much more…

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at home’ when unified with victims

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‘the only way to stop…

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us being swept away into the night’ was to ‘hold onto each other’.

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Frau Paul ‘great…

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humanity’ and ‘courage’

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‘obsession,…

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caused by what they did to her’

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to ‘plan ahead’…

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is ‘an unbearable obligation’

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‘like a dog…

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watching TV…it can’t make out what’s happening’

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‘things had been…

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put behind glass, put they were not yet over’.

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‘it feels just…

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about right to be finishing at last’.

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‘wear…

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you down’

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‘We weren’t…

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seriously against the state.’

39
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Chrissie completion

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‘I can’t believe Rodney was okay about it’.

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they are nothing but a ‘zombie’…

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to improve their ‘pliability’.

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‘all these…

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other things to think about’

42
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‘beam benign…

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Germanness around the globe’

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‘locked away anyone…

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who might…in some way embarrass the government’

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‘I have…

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to keep going’.

45
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‘you would come to think…

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of your past as a landscape you travelled through without noticing the signs’.

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‘cannot…

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have structure imposed on’

47
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‘stuck in…

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the amber of memory’

48
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‘wariness’ and expectation…

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that Kathy would ‘do something to her’

49
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‘the picture she has…

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of herself is one the Stasi made for her’

50
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‘that room [office] was

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offered and refused, and a soul buckled out of shape, forever’

51
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‘they have nothing…

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else to believe’

52
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‘the picture we make of…

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ourselves… sustains us

53
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‘coloured a…

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cheap and nasty world golden’

54
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‘prepare tea and scones’ ‘Hailsham students’…

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‘were all very special’

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‘built on lies’

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‘singing the truth’.

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‘one can never…

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say that something is impossible’

57
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‘I was scared…

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I’d suffer some traffic accident or a mishap at work’

58
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‘how slight…

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she is underneath’

59
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‘prison left…

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me with strange little tics’.

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‘a cigarette’…

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which ‘sits forgotten in the ashtray’

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‘I waited to…

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see a flash of the old Laura…none of that came’.

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‘so close to…

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the pain and the worry’

63
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‘if you didn’t…

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buck the system, then it wouldn’t harm you’.

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‘no one is

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interested in these people’

65
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‘she was probably embarrassed…

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about it…the whole thing had shrunk in her memory’.

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‘nagging…

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feeling would always be there’.

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‘we’ve loved…

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each other all our lives’

68
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‘welcome…

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chance to rest’

69
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‘it was mainly because informers…

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got the feeling…they were somebody’ ‘had it over others’

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‘she always wanted to believe…

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in things’

71
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‘most obscure roads…

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covered ‘in darkness’

Willingness to stay in the dark

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‘she was brave…

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and strong and broken all at once’

73
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‘fearful of the world’…

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‘somewhere deep down’

74
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‘she made a point of staring…

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back at me blankly’

75
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‘acclimatising…

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to the thinning of the atmosphere’

76
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‘climbing the steps head down,…

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just following the heels of the person in front’

77
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‘bring them up…

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loyal to the state’

78
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‘i held myself tight…

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so as not to scream…this land howled back at me’

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‘monstrous…

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expanse of grey concrete’

80
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‘forget for whole stretches…

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of time who we really were’

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