100 Love Letters to Berlin

Twenty-second Letter, March 12

Good morning, Berlin!

Twenty-first Letter, March 10

Dear Berlin,

You win. I have been completely seduced. Sh*t.

It only took two months of courtship and twenty-one letters for me to fall in love, to get over my commitment issues, and to admit to myself how much I care…

Twentieth Letter, March 2

Dear Berlin,

I’m in bed with a terrible headache today, but I’ve got a few Berlin things in mind to do this weekend. The plan:

• Zeit für Brot
• Pergamon Museum

Nineteenth Letter, March 1

Dear Berlin,

Today was a very strange one, and I guess I just want to say that I’m glad that you’re here for me.

The school where I work made the front page news for its history of violence compounded by the hire of three…

Eighteenth Letter, February 25

Dear Berlin,

Seventeenth Letter, February 20

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Sixteenth Letter, February 13

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Fifteenth Letter, February 10

Dear Berlin,

I have to say that the daily pedestrian rush hour on the Warshauerstraße Brücke is one of my most beloved, most “Berlin” experiences of living here.

Fourteenth Letter, February 8

Dear Berlin,

After sleeping through my alarm and realizing I’m going to be late for a museum date, I write a quick text to Jesslyn, shove my feet into boots, and make for Checkpoint Charlie. I find her reading in the back of the Starbucks on Kochstraße; she looks shocked…