Walls, Stories, and Coming Together
On this night, 9 November, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down
On a night when the darkness seems to be swallowing the stars, and even the moon looks blue, my spirits were lifted by being reminded that on this night, in 1989, something oppressive and heartbreaking we were told would never change became history. Tonight was the night the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.
I was living in Amsterdam, and watching it happ…