“When I think about it I don’t know how we started over again. We were completely ruined! Our hotel had eighty rooms, all furnished, plus the restaurant … But one has to go on. I had two sons in school. I had to hide them from the boches. They took my third son to Germany. We had to suffer ghastly horrors. My father had to be committed; he lost his mind. But my wife, she was extraordinary, very patriotic, very courageous. We survived. But, you know, all of that forms a man, it gives a man character. You have spirit, you resist, you fight, but you become more generous, nobler in a sense,
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