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Kaden frowned “Wait Isn’t that?”
“Where Lawson’s body was found? Yep”
His eyes widened “Wow” Running a hand through his thick blond hair, he exhaled “So”
“So, there’s no way all this was a coincidence The very day we go to look for the safety deposit box key GG wrote to me about, he beat us to it Then we find out he went to the toas murdered at the day before?” She pursed her lips “No way Too much of a coincidence”
“What are you thinking?”
“I’ GG’s trail, whether through letters of his own or so in Newberry And we’re going to find out what it is”
DECEMBER 18, 1943
I feelto an end Not because ill be liberated I hold no such hope For believing in freedo of fairytales One cannot hold on to such dreams in this wretched place and survive Instead, you are forced to think of only the day Only the hour For our lives are now counted in minutes, in breaths That is how little tiiven moment
No, I fear I will not be here er because I
findwith every passing hour Today, I stand aside the throng of Jews— the selection As I watch, I knoill soon be responsible for stripping the newco as they are killed before I can resu their bodies
They called theins They purge the newcomers first, then move on to the others They strip theele, with his clipboard, decides their fate based on several factors which come down to an assessment of “health”
I can no longer smell er appalls or shames me as it did e first arrived I wait as one man fails while another survives to live another day in this wretched place My nerves strike discordant notes inside les to remain on his feet before he is even called
Kuni, a boy I know fro his ar to prop him up The scene makes me think of my own father, and I wonder if he had survived the initial culling if we’d be in their position today If I’d be struggling to keep both of us alive, instead of only ht in my chest, not only because Ito care for another in here would be nearly impossible
It is Kuni’s turn, and he takes off, pus To avoid selection, you must out-do yourself, find your will to live from deep within You must run as fast and as hard as you can You hts, and practically fly past the officers And that is what Kuni does
He is directed to the throng of men who passed, when his father falls to the floor with a thud His euard, The Butcher, hollers for hi he has to sis