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Arrival

I arrived in Berlin for the first time only in 1995, long after it had become a fashionable and exotic place to runaway to.

A year earlier, my imagination of the city had been re-captured by Wim Wenders's Faraway So Close! (1993), the second of his angels in Berlin films. Before that, Berlin was only a shadow in my mind, cast long ago when I was just a boy growing up on a sunny island in the middle of the Mediterranean. Berlin! Berlin? That was the shadow of the cold war. But today, Berlin is different.