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Luga had burned, Toleneral von Leeb’s isepp-Gatchina rail line, and despite the efforts of hundreds of thousands of volunteers digging trenches under mortar fire, none of the front lines would hold Despite all orders not to surrender the railroad, the railroad was surrendered

And Tatiana was still in the hospital unable to walk, unable to hold the crutches, unable to stand on her broken shinbone, unable to close her eyes and see anything else besides Alexander

Tatiana couldn’t wring the hurt out of herself Couldn’t drench the flaust, a few days before Tatiana was to come ho Leningrad

Babushka said, "Tanechka, we’re too old to stay in the city during war We’ll never e Your father wants us to leave, and he is right, we need to go We’ll be better off in Molotov Your grandfather was assigned a good teaching post and during the summer ill stay in--"

"What about Dasha?" Tatiana interrupted with hope "She is going to coht?"

Deda said that Dasha would not leave Tatiana behind

It’s not ht Tatiana

Deda said that when the cast ca, she, Dasha, and maybe their cousin Marina, too, would evacuate to Molotov "Evacuating you right now is too difficult with a broken leg," concluded Deda

Yes, Tatiana thought, without Alexander to carry rad, too?"

"Yes," Deda replied "Your Aunt Rita is very sick, and Uncle Boris is up at Izhorsk We asked her if she wanted to come with us, but she said she could not leave her ht the Gerineer at Izhorsk, a factory much like Kirov, and as the Ger tanks and artillery shells and rocket launchers, were preparing for battle

"Marina should definitely go with you," said Tatiana "She--" Tatiana tried to think of a mild description " -- She does not do well under pressure"

Deda said, "Yes, we know But as always, it is the ties and bonds of love and fa therandmother and I are our own bonds I would say not just bonds, but chains" He smiled at Babushka