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My Gay Tragedy

From the January 2025 Print Edition

I sat in my chair, looking through the window across the wide plain to the towers of Lüneburg. Everyone was silent. The therapist turned to the older woman. “What do you see?”—“The Elbe River.” Then she began to tell: Her father, whom she had never met, had died in Russian captivity . . . . Continue Reading »