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Question 1

Opening

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Mother! Mother it’s time to go.

Question 2

Bubby! I wrote you a letter to read at the hospital

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I’ve got all your paperwork

Question 3

Are you going to play spill and spell at the hospital?

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I haven’t seen that game in years. I thought it was lost

Question 4

It wasn’t lost in the mail. It came. The letter came. It wasn’t lost.

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Mother. I’m packing your blue sweater. Your room might be chilly

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I’ll miss you, Bubby

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Is your grandfather ready?

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How’s your stomach?

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Mother, I’m packing your medicines. Just in case. They should have it on your chart, but just in case. I’ll be with you most of the time, anyway.

Question 7

I’ll write you letters while I’m gone for the summer.

Answer 7

Would you rather have your brown sweater?

Question 8

However long God wills me to be in the hospital, that’s how long I’ll be in the hospital.

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Mother! Where’s my jacket?

Question 9

I’ll play Spill and Spell with you when I come home from camp!

Answer 9

All set?

Question 10

Go on. Your mother and I will be down in a minute.

Answer 10

Mother, the car’s waiting.

Question 11

You should have these

Answer 11

What is it?

Question 12

My letters from camp

Answer 12

Mother, we have to leave

Question 13

Come here. Sit down. Open the box.

Answer 13

I don’t understand

Question 14

These are my letters…I was in a labor camp

Answer 14

A labor camp?

Question 15

During the war.

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A concentration camp?

Question 16

I’ll write to you.

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Here’s your name

Question 17

What?

Answer 17

This envelope has your name on it

Question 18

Yes.

Answer 18

Gepperssdorf. Where’s Geppersdorf?

Question 19

It was Geppersdorf. A camp

Answer 19

A concentration camp?

Question 20

No. A labor camp. You don’t know anything.

Answer 20

How should I know about something you never, never mentioned? Not to me, not to the girls

Question 21

You knew I was in the war

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Yes, but this is different from any of the stories you’ve told us

Question 22

So now I tell you.

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There must be hundreds of pieces of paper here

Question 23

I never counted.

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Who wrote all these letters?

Question 24

My sisters… Ala wrote me for a very long while.

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Who was Ala?

Question 25

A friend from the camps

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Camps? More than one?

Question 26

Three or four. I don’t remember.

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You were in three or four different camps?

Question 27

Maybe five?

Answer 27

Five?

Question 28

It was a long time ago.

Answer 28

You were in five different labor camps

Question 29

No. It was seven.

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Seven!

Question 30

Yes. Let’s go.

Answer 30

Wait. How did you save all these letters?

Question 31

I hid them

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I can’t wrap my mind around this. How did you get mail? You got letters? In a camp?

Question 32

Yes.

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And you saved them? How did you- (manage to hide all these letters)

Question 33

They were important to me.

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So important you never told me about them? Where are these people now?

Question 34

Your Aunt Rose is in Brooklyn.

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Yes of course. But what happened to the others?

Question 35

Most of them didn’t survive the war. I’m tired now. Let’s go.

Answer 35

Okay. We’ll look at these later.

Question 36

The letters are yours now.

Answer 36

We can talk about them later. After you come back home from the hospital. Do you have everything?

Question 37

I don’t need much.

Answer 37

Mother!

Question 38

What?

Answer 38

Stop worrying.

Question 39

Who’s worried?

Answer 39

They do bypass surgery everyday. It’s a common procedure.P

Question 40

Puh puh. Take care of the letters.

Answer 40

Mother.