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German antiques collector Charlotte has lived through the Nazi and Communist regimes as a transgender woman. She is describing her friend, a gay man named Alfred who was jailed by the Communist secret police after he (and Charlotte) sold clocks to American soldiers. Once playful and full of life, Alfred is now bitter and in failing health. He and Charlotte still remain close friends, and she is telling the story of the day she went to visit him in prison. According to Charlotte’s narrative,
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Start: Charlotte: I visited Alfred Kirschner in jail. I had on my red coat with the flared skirt, and my hair was quite long. Prison Official: Who are you , and who do you intend to visit today? Charlotte: I am the wife of Alfred Kirschner, of course.
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End: Charlotte: Here’s a picture of Alfred with an Electrola gramophone. Ah! Yes! An old postage stamp, from East Prussia. Alfred was more intelligent than I. Still, that’s all he had left–scraps of paper, yes?
Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, pp. 59-61.
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