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You can't go home again

The strange experience of visiting my birthplace on the edge of East Germany

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Katja Hoyer
Nov 21, 2023
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In ‘You Can't Go Home Again,’ a 1940 novel by the American writer Thomas Wolfe, the protagonist George Webber muses: ‘You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home …

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