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I Am My Own Wife

Charlotte Doug Wright

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Start: Doug: Charlotte, I know this is difficult. And I know I’m an American, from thousands of miles away…I didn’t even really know what the Cold War was until it ended…so I’ve no right to sit in judgment. But, about Alfred Kirschner…his arrest… Charlotte: Hmm. Yes. Of course.

[... … …] End: Charlotte: These hands have laid mortar and brick; they have carved walnut. But for Alfred they learned to knit. Doug: But Charlotte, I— Charlotte: It is beautiful, yes?

Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, pp. 63-64.

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