Memories filled her head, memories of warm summer days. It was summer 1932, she was nine, lying blissfully next to her mother on the beach beside Lake Wannsee in Berlin. That last carefree summer. It surprised her to be recalling this of all things. She wondered what Berlin looked like now. Was it all just rubble everywhere, or did something like normal life exist? Was her building in Dahlem still standing? Who lived there? Would she ever see it again? She stopped herself. Was she homesick for Germany? For her language, her culture, her roots? She tried to switch off her mind, but another
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