couldn’t get over what they had done to us.  I felt so guilty for being the only survivor in my family.  I felt like I should have died, too, but was still here, and I couldn’t understand why.  I couldn’t get a grip on my life and why I had been spared, what God had done in saving my life, but not my family’s.”

     Clara took another sip of water and dabbed her eyes with her napkin.

     “It took me a lot of years to reconcile that, to accept my life, to accept being alive, and them being dead, especially Anna, who had her whole life ahead of her.  No wedding, no children from her.”

     She sipped another of water and took in a deep breath and let it out.

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