It takes courage beyond belief to sneak out in the night to dig in the garbage for scraps to keep from starving when you know you would be killed if you were caught, or to crawl through ice and snow to freedom because the muscles in your legs atrophied from sitting in a hay mow for almost two years.
Tengo que comenzar el prlogo advirtiendo al lector que mi juicio sobre estas MEMORIAS est necesariamente influenciado por la afinidad en el tema que motiv a Carolina a escribirlas, ya que me siento totalmente identificado con los objetivos de la Fundacin Rotaria.
It was not Xanthippe's carrot colored sheath of hair, or her lissome way of walking, like a cat, nor even her devilish gift of mimicry that caused talk.
As a six-month-old infant, Linda Christianson was diagnosed with poliomyelitis, a highly contagious disease that crippled thousands of children and adults before a vaccine became available in 1953.
I have no great actions to boast of,but I will endeavor in my way, whichis a way of my own, to write yousome anecdotes, give you some ideasof how we fared, what we did, what we seen, and how we seen it.
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