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I began to look at them in a new light and finally understood that they had always wanted what was best for me, had always wished for my success, but lacked the tools and knowledge to help me. They did what they could, escaping poverty and persecution to bring my brothers and me to what they saw as this promised land. They could not have anticipated all the hardships we would face here. Faith was all they had.
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― House of Sticks
― House of Sticks
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I didn’t want Marek to go over there, “he says. “It isn’t our fight, I told him. But it’s hard to take insults when you are a young pup. Marek got tired of being called a dumb bohunk just like Eberhard hated being called a Hun. I don’t know what it is with the Anglos of this city. They came from somewhere else, but if you ask them they just say they are Americans. Still we fight for America, same as they do. Pay the same price,” He puts the shotgun on the steps next to him. “I wanted to stay out
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― The Bohemian Flats
― The Bohemian Flats
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