1:43:00
...and anybody who´s new,
especiaIIy if they come without famiIies.
1:43:05
If I can do anything, I do it.
1:43:11
l am dazzled,
from the point of view of a writer.
1:43:14
Who else has...
1:43:16
...the unbelievably good fortune to live...
1:43:19
...with the Jewish manufacturer...
1:43:22
...the English working-class union man...
1:43:25
...railroad stoker, the milkman...
1:43:28
...and the Anglo-lndian Victorian ladies?
1:43:31
Whoever has the sheer...
1:43:34
...advantage of not studying this
from the outside...
1:43:39
...but being a heIpIess member
from the inside of these famiIies?
1:43:45
Seems to me...
1:43:47
...it was a gift.
1:43:48
Didn´t seem so at the time.
1:43:53
l now look at...
1:43:56
...my 14-year-old grandson...
1:43:58
...and l think, ´´This is the age when l lost...
1:44:01
´´...parents, home, country. ´´
1:44:06
A lot has been made up to me...
1:44:09
...from where l lost out.
1:44:12
l have a second cousin here.
1:44:15
He says "´Anything you haven´t had,
you´ve got now."´
1:44:17
Which is so true.
1:44:19
And I´m very gratefuI
and very proud of the whoIe famiIy.
1:44:27
The younger you were, the more
unforgiving you are of your parents.
1:44:31
You may say they were so brave
and saved you...
1:44:33
...but they really abandoned you.
1:44:37
We were four friends, very close friends.
1:44:39
We all agreed:
1:44:41
"´If it ever happens again...
1:44:43
"´...we wiII not send away our chiIdren.
We wiII stay...
1:44:46
"´...and die together."´
1:44:48
That´s what we said.
1:44:52
Later on, as we grew oIder, we said...
1:44:54
...we mitigated it, we said:
1:44:56
"´If it ever happens, we promise to take
each other´s chiIdren in.