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At the end of the year something about accounting. My father worked in the GDR statistics office. He often worked overtime. No wonder, I sneered after the fall of the Wall. It would have been a huge effort to neatly tease frizzy realities. My ridicule offended him: he had never manipulated numbers. In any case, the statement of a statistic could be influenced more elegantly by which indicators are collected, how they are assigned and what politicians make of them. None of these decisions was his job.
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