according to the east german politburo like a show gunter schabowski with east germans will be permitted to leave the country. mature a shocking and of course i immediately thought can this be true. what's going to happen. and then a few minutes later the phone rang and it was frank calling me. i said to him let's did you hear that he said yes let's go and meet at almost cost under the new font i'm on. my husband said look what if the boat is about to open i'm coming to get you and we'll go get out things together and i'll get you home distressed i'll be back in a moment you don't mind my foot on my tennis shoes and rant about how much toss $700.00 metres. it's been you know it was the one i got in my car and i. you know that they're driving a bit faster than allow probably on my way to bornholm a bridge. between that announcement on television and we wanted to see if we could actually do it i don't think this one is an effective means of something. at 9 that evening the checkpoint behind bornholmer bridge was closed as always. in west berlin a protest march was drawing to a close on the