Perhaps it was because she had less resources to draw from than Joy, or because she had to give up on her own dream of going to school which made her feel powerless. ... "She was still young enough to enjoy partying, dancing and being noticed by men "and noticing them back "much to the chagrin of her family and friends who ended up watching the boys so many nights " (19). ...

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Part 1 When I was a young girl, I lived in Warsaw Poland with my mother father and baby sister Basia. My life was happy and carefree, until the day the planes began dropping bombs from the sky and the men with the shiny black boots came marching into our city. We were scared and unsure of what woul...

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