“I had the chance to live fairly in Germany.
 
The weekend I went to Berlin, the emotion was overwhelming.
 
It was only after I started working as a journalist that I got the impression that we were at a new beginning. That it was the end of the world as we knew it.
 
When the wall fell, I was around 25 or 26 years old.
 
All my political and cultural views, my relationships with German friends were bound (up in) when the wall existed, when Germany and Europe were divided, with the perspective that nothing would ever change.
 
And I imagine I was among the millions of people that day who was truly surprised by the events.”

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