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By Associated Press  Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
Catrin Schmitt, left, and Yvi Schmitt, right, with their children Annie, 2nd left, and three-years-old Ben have dinner in their ...

Associated Press

Catrin Schmitt, left, and Yvi Schmitt, right, with their children Annie, 2nd left, and three-years-old Ben have dinner in their flat in Berlin on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Catrin Schmitt had to make some adjustments in the first years of her life with Yvi, an east German woman she fell in love with six years after the Berlin wall came down. Catrin, from the west German city of Mainz, had to come to terms with the disturbing fact that her girlfriend's uncle had worked for the Stasi, the East German secret police.

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