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    Making a Breakthrough

    Dec 09, 2019 4 minutes
    Edwina Sandys

    “May we dedicate ourselves to hastening the day when all God’s children live in a world without walls, that would be the greatest empire of all.”

    President Ronald Reagan, 9 November 1990, Fulton, Missouri

    Thirty years ago on 9 November 1989 along with the rest of the world, I was glued to the television screen, watching the Berlin Wall crumble and fall.

    The souvenir hunters immediately started chipping away. It was, however, only when I learned that the East Germans had removed long stretches of the Wall intact and were selling them that an idea came to me.

    “Wouldn’t it be wonderful,” I thought, “to get a piece of the wall, make a sculpture

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