Family
Strauss married Marianne Zwicknagl in 1957. They had three children: Max Josef, Franz Georg, and Monika, who was member of the Landtag of Bavaria and a Bavarian minister. In 2009 she was elected to the European Parliament.
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and undisturbed, unbreathing flame,
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and, lulled within, a family with pets,
—and looked and looked our infant sight away.”
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