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That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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Survivor Veteran Weight
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate Writing
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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Generations Golden Thinking
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

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That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

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