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"...they announced that their names were Mekas, and they had just come by plane from Buenos Aires because they had heard that Jonas Mekas lived in New York. Their little boy, Jonas, got lost in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1943 during the German liquidation of Jews. They stood there in the doorway and they looked at us and we looked at them, and they cried, and we cried, because they realized I wasn't the son they were hoping for."
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One of the saddest autobiography that I've read so far. This book is
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