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Cover illustration for Two Knocks on the Wall, B2 Spanish story

Two Knocks on the Wall

Dos golpes en la pared

An old widow with a spare key, an unsigned note on a Stasi lieutenant's desk, and four years of midnight flashes across the Berlin Wall. Somebody in Ilse's building has been counting them too.

Part 2 of 4 in The Language of Light

«¿Y qué le dices tú a esa ventana, criatura?». Ilse se quedó helada con la mano en el interruptor. En el umbral, envuelta en dos chales, Gerda Otto sostenía la llave de repuesto que guardaba para emergencias.

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