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Elsa spent the night in East Berlin with her extended family. While she was sleeping, the Berlin Wall was put up, separating her and her immediate family.
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Elsa's parents try to find a way to get to her. People were trying to escape East Berlin by jumping out their windows.
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Elsa spends Christmas upset because she misses her parents and brother, but tries to be happy for her other relatives.
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It is Elsa's fourteenth birthday and she misses West Berlin. The school teachers speak about communism in a good light.
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Alf's friend Peter was shot by border patrol trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
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President Kennedy traveled to West Berlin to speak about the Berlin Wall. Elsa became hopeful and inspired.
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President Kennedy was assassinated.
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Elsa turns sixteen and thinks about being back in West Berlin and how she would have been allowed to drive.
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President Ronald Reagan spoke and Elsa listened in with her two daughters.
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After 28 years, the Berlin Wall was torn down and Elsa was reunited with her family.
