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(calming music)

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(people faintly chattering)

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- [Person] Where were you?

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- What?

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- In the war? Where were you?

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- In Poland.

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- [Person] But where were...

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You weren't in the camps?

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- No, we had the Aryan papers.

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- [Person] You had what?

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- Aryan papers.

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- [Person] Oh.

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- Yeah.

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- Yeah, 'cause when he said the Holocaust,

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my parents were Holocaust survivors and-

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- Yeah?

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- [Person] They were much older.

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With your age, you couldn't
never survive the camps.

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- Yeah, well, we were lucky.

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My father was at one point
in camp, but he escaped.

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- Oh.

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- Yeah.
- He escaped the camp?

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- No.

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No, the camp.

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They took him on a work detail-

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- Oh.

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- And then there was a shed there,

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and he hid in there,

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and they didn't make a count going back.

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So, he was left behind.

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- Very lucky.

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- Yes.

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- Very.

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(soft piano music)

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- [Nina] Hi, hun. How are you?

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- So nice to see you.

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- Ah.

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I get to kiss you more times.

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- Thank you for...

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(Nina laughs)
Thanks for having me.

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I'm excited.

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- Where's my popcorn?

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(Grandson chuckles)

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Oh.

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

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(Grandson chuckles)

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- [Grandson] The one
tip is to try to restate

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the question when you can.

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So I'll say-

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- I'm not going to do that.

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Come on.

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If I can't hear it,
then I'll say it to you,

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but otherwise I'm not going
to repeat what you said.

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- [Grandson] No, you don't
have to repeat, can I explain?

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So if I say, what is-

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- I know what you're saying.

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You want to hear about my
experiences there and there.

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- [Grandson] Okay. You ready to go?

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(paper crumples)

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I know you give me a lot of shit

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that I don't have kids yet,

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and my brother doesn't
either, but one day we will.

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And I want them to know about
you and to know your story.

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How do you want them and my
grandkids to remember you?

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(soft piano music)

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- I was born in Kielce,

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which is a town between Warsaw and Krakow.

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We were way above middle class,

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and if anybody thinks
that I come from a shtetl,

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I get very upset,

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because I have never seen
a shtetl in my whole life.

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My sister was six years older.

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Supposedly I looked like Shirley
Temple, I had blonde curls.

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And she was Deanna Durbin.

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Once she heard the tune, she
could sit down and play it.

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(soft piano music)

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My sister had friends,
she wouldn't let me in.

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She would close the door,

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and they would talk
about different things,

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so I would listen through the peephole,

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and then what if I heard something bad?

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I would run to my mother,
"You know what she's doing?"

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If we were eating something
and she wanted what I had,

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she would say, "You want to eat that?

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It's disgusting.

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How can you have that?"

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You know.

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Then the minute I pushed away,

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she would take it and eat it.

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- [Grandson] And her name is Irene?

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- What?

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- [Grandson] Her name was Irene?

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- Irena.

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- [Grandson] Irena.

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- Irena.

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- [Grandson] And when was the
last time that you saw her?

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- In April of 1943.

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(train honks)
(soft piano music)

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- Hi.

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I got new glasses.

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Sorry, sorry.

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- Make sure you don't fall down.

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- No, I'm good. I'm all right.

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- Oh, okay.

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No, I thought you were closer to this-

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- No.

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- Hi, Mom.
- Hi.

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- Hi.
- Hi.

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- Hi.
- Hi.

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How are you?
- Hi.

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- Hi.

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- You have to make the
Netflix respond to me.

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Go.

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- Where do you mean "go"?

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(Mom laughs)

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It shouldn't be this slow.

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- What is "trending now"?

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- It just gives you new
things that are popular.

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- So, I want new things.

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- "Peaky Blinders"?

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That's supposed to be good.

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- No, no.

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- [Mom] I don't know,

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it's like we didn't really
talk about the Holocaust.

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I guess I knew, of course,
in the back of my mind,

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that she came here after the war.

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I knew it all along,

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but I didn't really think about it.

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On my mother's side, we
didn't have anybody to visit.

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We visited my grandparents in Brooklyn,

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but there were no aunts
and uncles on her side.

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There was nobody else, really.

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We didn't ask many questions
when we were growing up,

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it was just not talked about.

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So...

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(vacuum hums)

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- [Grandson] Grandma, what happens next?

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(vacuum hums)

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(people cheering)

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- [Nina] The war broke
out September 1st, 1939.

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(people cheering)

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From the minute the Germans drove in,

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they started picking
up Jews in the street.

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(melancholic music)

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My father decided we're not staying here.

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He figured out somehow that
maybe if he went to a priest,

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and the priest would give us a paper

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saying that we are studying
to become Catholic,

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that that will save us.

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The only problem was

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that we really had to
pretend that we're not Jews,

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so we had to go to church

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(bell tolls)

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(person speaking in foreign language)

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(melancholic piano music)

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And all the Jews went to the ghetto,

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and it was bad news there.

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(melancholic music continues)

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When people used to die,

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they used to put the
corpse out in the street,

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and it would stay there till,

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I don't know who eventually
picked up the bodies.

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(melancholic music continues)

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- [Grandson] But you
were in a way privileged

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you were on the other side of the wall.

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You were Catholic.

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You were fake Catholic.

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- Yes, but it was not
such a terrific thing,

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because my father was known.

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And we started getting
blackmailers coming at night.

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They said, "If you don't have anything,

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we're going to send the Gestapo."

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And sure enough, they send the Gestapo.

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And they took my father away.

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(melancholic piano music)

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My sister now became
the head of the family.

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My mother was really scared,

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and my mother looked very Semitic.

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Whereas my sister and I, we didn't.

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(people cheering)

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She felt that we cannot stay.

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And she somehow got my
mother a job on the farm,

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and I was going to be a cowgirl.

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They gave me six cows
and a stick and "Go".

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After two weeks maybe,

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we got a note from my sister saying that,

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"I'm going towards Wolf to see

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if there's anybody left from our family.

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Love, Irena."

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That's the end.

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We never heard about her.

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Never heard from her.

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And after the war, my
parents went to Red Cross

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and the Yad Vashem and
all that, nothing ever.

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Could never find trace of her.

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- [Grandson] What do you
think happened to her?

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- She was probably shot.

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On the train, they might've asked them

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for papers or something,

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and something happened
that maybe was suspicious.

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I don't know.

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- Was there a moment when it dawned on you

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that Irena was never gonna come back?

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- I never thought she's never coming back.

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To me, she has disappeared, I mean,

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but she'll come back.

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(melancholic piano music)

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Many times after the war,

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if I would see somebody
that looked like her,

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I would follow them thinking
maybe it's her, you know?

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But after a while, it, you
know, you stop, and that's it.

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(melancholic piano music)

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I feel the way I feel.

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But that's nobody's business
how I feel, you know?

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And I don't analyze it.

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It's part of me, and that's what it is.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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(soft music)

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(soft music continues)

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(birdseed rattles)

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- [Grandson] Can you
describe any last memories

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with her from that time?

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Do you remember anything you did together?

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- [Nina] No, no.

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- [Grandson] Think about it.

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You must remember something
from the war together.

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- [Nina] No, I...

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- [Grandson] You don't remember
your last memory of her?

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- [Nina] No, I don't
think about it that way.

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- [Grandson] And I know I'm pushing here.

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I'm gonna stop in a second.

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But we've never talked about...

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I never even knew you had a sister,

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that's why I'm so interested in this.

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'Cause you never told us.

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- [Nina] No, well, look.

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(soft piano music)

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I didn't talk about that time of my life.

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First of all, nobody was interested.

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You didn't talk about it.

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(soft piano music continues)

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Two, I felt that if I
start telling my story

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the way it really happened,

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it was too depressing or too horrifying

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for the kids when they were small.

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So I felt, "Okay sometimes later."

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And later never came.

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- Good?

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Great.

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- [Instructor] Must be
getting a little firmer.

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Just take a couple of breaths here,

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just finding your towel.

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Push into your feet, drop your shoulders.

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- [Nina] Hello?

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- [Giselle] Hi, Nina. Giselle speaking.

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How are you?

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- Hi, honey.

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I'm in the middle of yoga now.

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Can I call you back?

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- [Giselle] Yes, you can enjoy your yoga.

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You have a beautiful, beautiful grandson.

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I'll talk to you later.

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- [Nina] Okay, hun. Thank you.

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- [Instructor] Right through
your hands to your hips

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Either one.

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If you reach your arms
forward, it's more force.

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Push into your lap and slowly lift up.

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Beautifully done.

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Arms up and take them down to your hips.

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Swing your hands around,

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holding on to your right
ankle and your right knee.

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- [Grandson] What would
you say is your lesson

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from what you went through?

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- [Nina] That people are inhuman.

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And if there is any God,

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I don't understand that
he would let that happen.

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(train chugs)
(soft music)

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We were now evacuated as Poles.

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(cars honking)
(people cheering)

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We got on the train, and
we ended up in Prague.

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(explosions booming)

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The Czechs decided to liberate
their town from the Germans

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because the Allies are very close.

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(cars honking)

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The Czechs poured tar on the Germans.

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Hung them and then lit the match.

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(dramatic music)

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(people laughing)

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I mean, this was terrible.

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I never...

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The smell of the burning flesh.

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- [Grandson] But you lost your sister,

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surely that's revenge to burn-

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- [Nina] What?

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- [Grandson] Isn't that a kind of revenge,

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something that they deserved?

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- No.

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No, I just...

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You don't do that to other human being.

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I mean, come on.

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We are all born little adorable children.

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What happens? What happens?

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What happens to people
that they can become

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worse than animals?

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Animals kill because they're hungry.

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But...

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Terrible.

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What people do to
people, that's beyond me.

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I don't care, German, Jew, whoever.

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(tense dramatic music)

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I don't know, it's human races.

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Maybe it's time for it to
disappear, and I don't know.

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You think the creatures from
outer space will be better?

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I don't know.

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(dramatic string music)

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- Hi, Nina.

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- Hi, hi.

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I have a feeling that you're
going to have a hard time

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with accepting the fact
that I'm going, I'm gone.

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(melancholic string music)

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And you know, I feel bad about it.

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But you know, it's a fact of life.

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That's what happens.

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My lead then, right?

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- [Person] Mhm.

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(soft music)

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- [Grandson] Your father had
five sisters with families,

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and all of them were killed.

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- [Nina] That's correct, yeah.

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- [Grandson] I didn't know that.

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- [Nina] Yeah.

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What do mean you didn't know that?

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Everybody...

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- [Grandson] So you were
one of a few members

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of the extended family that survived.

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- [Nina] That survived, yeah.

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My parents and I.

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(soft music)

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- [Grandson] I think growing up,

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I never really understood that.

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(melancholic music)

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- [Nina] No, because look,
when you're growing up,

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you're young, you don't
dwell on these things.

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The same thing, I didn't
dwell while it was happening.

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I didn't dwell on it.

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That's what was happening, you know?

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I'm a very straightforward person.

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That's what happens, and
you have to accept it.

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You don't like it, too bad.

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(camera shutter snaps)

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(people screaming)

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I came to America in 1951.

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My mother said, "Why are
you going to sit home?

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Go to the beach."

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There were two guys there, I
didn't even look their way,

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but they saw me.

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And they flipped the
coin, and grandpa won.

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(soft piano music)

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And we got married in '53.

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We had Linda first.

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Two years later, we had Larry.

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(soft piano music continues)

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(soft piano music continues)

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(soft piano music continues)

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(Nina laughs)

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- [Person] Happy birthday.

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- Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi!
- Hi!

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Hi!

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- I made a birthday card for you.

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- Yeah?

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Thank you!

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Grandchildren, I have six.

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And great-grandchildren, I have five.

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(Nina laughs)

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- Hi, Grandma!

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(soft piano music)

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(train honks)

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Hi, Nini.

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(person laughs)

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- Hi.

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Would I want her to be alive?

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Definitely.

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Would I want her to be in my life?

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Yes.

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But what can I do about it?

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There's nothing I can do.

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That's what happened.

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What's gone is gone.

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(soft piano music)

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- Well, thank you for having us.

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We had such a great time, and-

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- [Nina] No, it was very nice,

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except when it was annoying.

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(Nina laughs)

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You should come and visit me more often,

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not just for the movies.

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- [Grandson] I spent three days,

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I spent four days with you this week.

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- [Nina] Okay, well that's
going to last me how long?

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(Nina chuckles)

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(lighthearted music)

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- Grandma is 90.

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I had no idea.

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- 29, 29!

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(people laughing)

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- We were never allowed to know your age.

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- Never.

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(lighthearted music)

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♪ Frankie Laine, he was singing Jezebel ♪

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- In the wake of a breakup,

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you're the best one to call.

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To tell me to like, stop
crying and get back out there.

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♪ I walked up to the tallest
and the blondest girl ♪

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- We say in Hebrew...

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(person speaks in Hebrew)

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Till 120.

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- [Nina] Okay.

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- And all the best.

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Keep on kicking!

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- Make a wish?

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Okay.

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I wish that we should all
be together next year.

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(people cheering)

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(lighthearted music)

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(no audio)

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(no audio)