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We weren’t allowed to have a girlfriend,
you could only do it in secret.

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In secret, but we weren’t allowed
to bring someone home.

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And we had to be back
in the accommodation by 10pm.

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By 10pm, that was the rules.

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Otherwise you could forget
being able to stay in Germany.

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For example: she visited me

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and then we lost track of time,

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she stayed past 10pm.

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They they banned her.

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She wasn’t allowed to enter

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the accommodation for
one or two months.

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She was my girlfriend,
I couldn’t let it happen.

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Banned for three to four months,
I had to do something.

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People tried all sorts of tricks
to somehow make it possible

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for their girlfriend to spend the night.

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But it rarely worked. Firstly,
you had to get your roommate on side.

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You go into another room,
three of you sleep there,

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and I stay here.
Then I go downstairs with her

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she gets her ID back
and says: bye!

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Then we leave together.

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Then you come back with her,
but she would keep really low.

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The guard was up high, and unable to
see what was below.

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You’d say: I’m back!
Has your girlfriend left?

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Yes, she’s gone. She’s not
coming back until next week.

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I also have to work, you see.
Here we only work.

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I don’t want her to come here.
I also need to work.

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The guard:
Yes, you’re a good egg!

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We had to do it like that because
the porter had to do the rounds

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at 9:30 p.m.

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To check who is in each room.

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If we’re all there or not.

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Once I forgot to close the door,
the porter came in

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and the girl was sitting there.
She was banned for six more months.

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The police may also have been notified

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that the girl was no good.

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Then the police gave her trouble.
That’s how it was.

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It was not good.