A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie.

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"Die schwarzen Schafe" (1951); cited from 1947 bis 1951 (Köln: F. Middelhauve, 1963) p. 478. Translation: "Black Sheep", in Leila Vennewitz (trans.) The Stories of Heinrich Böll (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995) p. 408.

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