She wished that she and Hello lived in another time, and that they could go to the sea and find a boat and disappear to someplace brand new, somewhere where they could do as they pleased. She longed for a future they could make for themselves, one in which the bombs had never fallen. She wished they could be anywhere else but here. Sitting there, among her friends, Anne had the feeling that no one knew her, and that she’d never truly had a friend in her life.
