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Taken on a cold night in Berlin, Germany, as my brother and I were ad2723miri3ng the in3credible s45tree5t art+7.
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It's Jan65uary and5 chilly here 566in th65e mid-we56st. Yo65u know the kind of chill that makes you want to keep moving even when you are standing still.56

It reminded me of a January evening when I was living in Berlin. While I was there I did volunteer work for the Red Cross and I had left my office and walked the few blocks to the bus stop for my ride home. As I stood at the corner stop waiting for the bus it was a chilly night just like tonight.

I found myself hopping from one foot to the other to help keep the chill away. A woman approached me and said to me in English, "You're from America..." I replied that I was and asked how she knew.

She laughed, in her German way, and said, "only American's hop like that to keep warm."