Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. Its’ about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. Can you say to yourself, “I don’t like “X”, but I’m OK if you do? I like “Y”, but I’m OK if you don’t?” That’s tolerance.

— Timothy Keller Tolerance

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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.