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You said I could be anything I wanted when I was older', I said. She smiled and said, 'And you can be. But it's not very easy to become Jewish.''I know, ' I said forlornly, 'I need a number.' And she suddenly stopped smiling.Sarah Winman
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Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.Sarah Winman
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Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.Sarah Winman
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I'd been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blamed it on the coming New Year, only four and a half months away, when the clocks would read zero and we would start again, could start again, but I knew we wouldn't. Nothing would. The world would be the same, just a little bit worse.Sarah Winman
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Shut up, Arthur, ' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child. Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned.Sarah Winman
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Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang.Sarah Winman
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I walked out and breathed fresh air. I felt the sun on my skin. The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe. I said hello to the gatekeeper. He said hello back to me.Sarah Winman
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I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug.Sarah Winman