We were three days, three nights on this train. Put us on the sidings during the night and for how long it was, until we moved on again. And…after three days we arrived. My mother knew it wasn’t the east because she could see the Alps and the Pyrenees later on. So she knew it wasn’t the east. They were always frightened of the east.
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