CHAPTER TEN
Leizpig train station was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the Saxon and Prussian rail companies. It has twenty-six tracks, thirteen for the Prussians and thirteen for the Saxons. It was forbidden to bring Prussian trains into the Saxon part of the station and vice versa. Everything was duplicated: two reception halls, two staircases, two waiting rooms. The result is a façade 270 metres long and a station much too big for the city.
I looked these details up to tell Sally. She’d never been to Germany and knew nothing about it. I had to draw her a map showing where the border had been and another map showing the Wall that had encircled West Berlin and the corridor road out.
The writing exercise was long over, but we were still dwelling on My Story. Sometimes
