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I envied the wings Thumbelina strapped on her back at the end of the story, so she could from that day forward rescue herself. I promised myself to add an impossibly flying chicken to my wall in the morning.
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Frankly, I would rather die than have my diary published. Now that everyone in the whole world knows Anne’s deepest secrets, I’m sure she would want to kill herself anyway.
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Mostly, Lucy and I call each other morons, stupid, and idiots, knowing how important it is to both of us to be smart.
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Whenever my mother’s will-to-live wavered and her hand reached out for the electric fence, my ash would whisper, “Live, live.”
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“Just because I am not Jewish doesn’t mean I haven’t suffered,” she said. But she walked to the root cellar to get the girl.
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So I needed something more than just the prayers. Something a little extra, and very American, because America was an ocean away from the evil followers of that bad man Hitler.
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"Just because I am not Jewish doesn't mean I haven't suffered," she said.
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And there were the petroleum processing plants on the edge of town, along the New Jersey Turnpike. Sometimes, on summer nights, the air was so heavy with stench it hurt my throat to breathe.
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It is four A.M. Why are we cooking? Because farm work, housework, cooking, commuting to factory work take place round the clock to keep the tiny farm going, the farm that replaced the lives lost Over There.
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Fears of instantaneous death might have seized Anne Frank's daughter since she was little, just like they did me, especially in bathrooms, because they reminded us of gas chambers, you know, the whole shower thing, the worry that gas might come out instea
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The therapist started to seem increasingly far away, his head a tiny potato head, across the ignorant universe of his dustless desk that seemed to get bigger and bigger as the session progressed, like something out of Alice in Wonderland.
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“If I didn’t keep busy I’d go crazy,” said my father repeatedly. “The problem with you is that you think too much.” I much later learned that this was Primo Levi’s secret to surviving the camps: “Don’t think.”
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It's like all my fears and desire for revenge get funneled into this tortured Nazi soldier so I can get some sleep. I always fall asleep before he dies.
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"Who ever heard of a Jewish cop?" they would say to him at every opportunity. "Irish. The Irish are cops. And the Aryans. Look at you. You look like a Nazi."
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he would start slapping my bare rear end exposed by wearing shorts with his open hand, harder and harder, ten, twenty, thirty times, saying "You think this is funny? I'll show you funny. You still think this is funny?" until I was screaming and sobbing.
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