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Illustration by Monika Aichele accompanying a review of Anna Winger's expat-in-Berlin cultural quirkathon This Must Be The Place . German? American? Nationality doesn't enter into it. [Protagonists] Hope and Walter are spooked by the stranger in the mirror, not the strangers on the street, and they've made geography the scapegoat for their detachment. Orson gives them a wake-up call: "Wherever you go, there you are," he tells Hope, quoting from the film "Buckaroo Banzai," adding, "I consider myself a citizen of the world." Don't we all. If I had a euro [...]