27. Germany (November 1989)
Three days ago.
“Die Mauer ist gefallen!!!”
Checkpoint Charlie, so bleak and forbidding just weeks before,
as I inched my way through the traffic jam of surveillance and barriers.
Now a free-wheeling, riotous East-West human motorway.
I witness the pure joy of liberation
as The Wall comes tumbling down.
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(Die Mauer ist gefallen: The Wall has fallen)
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