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My mother survived the GDR by 3 days.
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I guess it was the right thing, that she never did learn the truth.
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She died happily.
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She wished for us to scatter her ashes to the four winds.
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That's not allowed in Germany. Not in the West and not in the East. But we didn't care.
1:51:29
Up there she is floating and maybe she is looking down at us.
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And sees us as tiny dots on our little Earth.
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Just like Sigmund Jähn back then.
1:51:42
The country my mother left was a country she had believed in
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and which we kept alive until her last second.
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A country that in fact never existed like this.
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A country that in my memory will always be connected to my mother.