Thursday, August 14, 2008

No Wall Can Stop This Birthday Girl

On one of her birthdays, they began building the Berlin Wall; on this one, our Berlin Mom was celebrating in an Italian restaurant after a successful bout with cancer and returning relaxed the day before from a three-week rehab, laughing with her age old friends, smiling over her two grandchildren and accepting birthday greetings from us all, guests from West Germany, her own neighborhood, and even yours truly from the far side of the ocean, the Atlantic one. All this may have once been unthinkable, but just check out the few photos, and you'll see THIS possibility IS what IS !

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  1. Happy Birthday to Edith *directly* from the other side of the Atlantic! Looks like everyone had a splendid time, as should be. And I love the picture of you and Detlef ... you must send me a copy!

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  2. ... never mind ... got it!

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  3. Which of the two do you mean? (Although I suppose you got both of them.)

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  4. i meant the one that you captioned as being taken by Steffi.

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