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Start: A long time ago, this old bar was sitting in the barn district of Berlin on Mulackstrasse, number fifteen. From the time of the Emperor Wilhelm II, it was a restaurant for gays and lesbians.
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End: And the Stasi–the Communist secret police, the most feared government spies of all the world–was coming, and they were looking in the windows, and they were saying, “What’s this?” So what could I do? I painted all the windows black.
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. 37-39.
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