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Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

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I remembered Papa talking about Stalin confiscating peasants' land, tools, and animals. He told them what crops they would produce and how much they would be paid. I thought it was ridiculous. How could Stalin simply take something that didn't belong...

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My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horri...

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You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

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Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.

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Stalin mi aveva portato via la casa e mio padre e ora si era preso anche il mio compleanno.

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I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

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Tadas was sent to the principal today," announced Jonas at dinner. He wedged a huge piece of sausage into his small mouth. "Why?" I asked. "Because he talked about hell," sputtered Jonas, juice from the plump sausage dribbling down his chin. "Jonas, ...

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Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

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He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

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How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me

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People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. W...

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A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

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...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

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But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said. "We know us," said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?

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