Gert mostly made his way as a carpenter’s assistant, though he sometimes made extra on the side—he claimed accidentally so—when he would bird at Noster’s Cottage, an invert pub near the working-class district of Hallesches Tor. The more knowledgeable ausländers were known to stop through, particularly Amerikans. They were quite aware of his biologic type, but this seemed the opposite of a deterrent for many of them. They affectionately called him Dreilochhengst. The three-holed stallion. He never visited the Cottage without leaving with at least two good stories. And if tourists happened to
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