...my muscles grew limp and there was a twitch in my lower jaw, and then I stopped and, looking around me I soon entered this obstinate solitude, summoned up all remaining will, evoking the full extent of my life, and endeavored to assess this situation with the utmost of exactitude, for I see only that residue again...she saw people die of hunger, and she could not help them, saved all food for her first born, and she was afraid to let him walk very far because she saw people who lost legs and eyes, so she carried the child for 20 miles or more, and when I collapsed and begged to be carried with that one available arm she only made quicker strides; I saw drool stream down the back of my mother's dress...


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