"One day my teacher and I were returning from a long walk.
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Karin hosted hippies who bellowed at me about Nicaragua, as if Iwere Ronald Reagan himself, and ateacher who wanted to show me Tegel, where the Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been imprisoned by the Nazis.
As a child she was both a stay-at-home-mom (until my three siblings and Iwere all in school) and a working mom (an over-committed special education teacher).