Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
The claim "oh, that's ancient history" is almost always a wish, am anxious attempt to put a boundary of time around some event that really is not over at all; it is a bid to silence the past.
The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
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The claim "oh, that's ancient history" is almost always a wish, am anxious attempt to put a boundary of time around some event that really is not over at all; it is a bid to silence the past.
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