Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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