I'd say adverb. I don't think it would be verb because of the way it's used in the sentence.
Work cited page at the end of the paper
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Vladek begins his story before the war. As a young man, he is in a relationship with a young woman named Lucia Greenberg when he meets Anja, his future wife and Art's mother. Vladek courts Anja. ... Shortly after they marry, Vladek learns that Anja has been helping an old boyfriend translate Communist documents in German.
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