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Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she - or he - would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known. -AC

In the rigid face only the eyes lived still, glowing with courage.- AC 😭

Thus the coming liberation had a twofold aspect, of happiness and tears. - AC

There was no room in any heart but for the very old, gray hope, that hope which keeps men from letting themselves drift into death and is nothing but a dogged will to live. -AC

Gray with dust, the palms and fig trees drooped despondently around a statue of the Republic, which too was coded with grime and dust. -AC

The telegram ran: Proclaim a state of plague stop close the town-AC

There was a Serene Blue sky flooded with golden light each morning, with sometimes a drone of planes in the rising heat - all seemed well with the world. - AC

For some moments he lingered, gazing up the dark street, watching the stars appear and disappear in the blackness of the sky. -AC

From the outline districts - as happens every evening in our town - a gentle breeze wafted a murmur of voices, smells of roasting meat, a gay, perfumed tide of freedom sounding on its way, as the street filled up with noisy young people released from shops and offices. -AC

There are no more cats. - AC