Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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And I feII.
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I couId have faIIen in-between...
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...the pIatform and the train.
There was onIy a smaII amount of space.

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I didn´t, but I got hurt and I was bIeeding...
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...and I was devastated.
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AbsoIuteIy devastated.
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And my father was in seventh heaven...
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...that he had his IittIe PupeIa,
his IittIe girI, back.

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The parting was terrible.
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That´s the one thing l have never...
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...forgotten in all my life.
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And she had been so controlled.
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She´d always been...
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...a sort of solid...
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...support to us.
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And suddenly she showed her feelings...
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...and it was terrifying, really terrifying.
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We saw this face...
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...which showed aII the hurt...
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...and agony she´d been through.
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And l can still see my father that mealtime.
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But l would have liked to have had
a happier image of my mother.

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That´s the onIy image...
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...of this contorted...
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...face...
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...fuII of agony.
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It was very sad.
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l remember standing by the window
and waving good-bye...

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...and just trying hard to believe...
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...that we really would come back.
That it won´t be for very long.

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But when the train moved
and they disappeared from sight...

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...both Vera and I
cried in each other´s arms.

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My parents ran along the train...
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...on the pIatform.
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And I stiII remember, sort of in my head...
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...I heard that refrain,
"´You´re Ieaving! You´re Ieaving! "´


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