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Start: Originally, I intended to burn all of Alfred’s letters. I was always afraid if the Stasi searched my house they would find them and ask, “Why do you keep the correspondence of a criminal?”
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End: He was left with only his bed. It was awful. After his release from jail, I went to the church in Weissensee and I found Alfred a place in their nursing home. One day, Alfred, you’ll have your own flat again.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife, Farr, Straus and Giroux, 2004, pp. 60-61.
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