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Start: A long time ago, this old bar was sitting in the barn district of Berlin on Mulackstrasse, number fifteen. From the time of the Emperor Wilhelm II, it was a restaurant for gays and lesbians.

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End: And the Stasi–the Communist secret police, the most feared government spies of all the world–was coming, and they were looking in the windows, and they were saying, “What’s this?� So what could I do? I painted all the windows black.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife, Farr, Straus and Giroux, 2004, pp. 37-39.