The older I become, the more fascinated I am of what happened in November 1989. I was seven years old on that evening when Egon Krenz announced that the GDR opened the borders to the Federal Republic of Germany, where I lived and still live. My brothers where 3 years and 9 months old. I don't remember anything about this evening. I just know that adults where discussing a lot for weeks. And I remember that just weeks or months before I had understood that there were two Germanies. And it had been hard to imagine that there was another country named Germany. What were these people there like? Did they speak the same language as we did? What did they look like? I thought it was really weird to have two countries with the same name.

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