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Mirushka. You keep on postponing it and putting me o , you’re
not helping me! You just say all the time that you’re taking care
of the matter, but I don’t see that anything is happening. I’ve
been waiting for you for two weeks already and Mirushka is
waiting for me. e war is over, we have to be together. Before
Papa was caught, he told me that as soon as the war would end,
the rst thing I must do is to bring Mirushka back. at’s what
Papa instructed me to do, and I have to obey.”

“Yosef, you’re acting recklessly and putting yourself in danger,”
Leiby scolded. “If anything happens to you, there’ll be no one
in the world who will bring Mirushka back.”

Chapter 1“No, it’s not true, I’m not acting recklessly at all,”Yosef stamped

his foot in frustration, suddenly looking like the child he really
was, instead of the adult that his life experiences had forced
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