When have you reached adulthood?

You have reached adulthood when you quit using drugs to trip out and start using drugs to feel normal.

— Anonymous

 

Bayer Aspirin, one of the world's favorite medications for pain, fever and inflammation since 1897. Photo © J. Elke Ertle, 2018. www.walled-in-berlin.com

You have reached adulthood when you quit using drugs to trip out and start using drugs to feel normal. Photo © J. Elke Ertle, 2018. www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic and current events, people, places and food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.

 

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