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An Adolescent’s Christmas, 1944

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What does it mean if a fourteen-year-old member of an affectionate, loyal, and a minimum of “three-quarters cultured” circle of relatives has bad dreams in regards to the Gestapo? What are our fourteen-year-olds having nightmares about nowadays?

Here is memoir––not fiction—about a wartime Christmas in Duluth, l944. Young Carol has two weeks home from boarding school. Her mother has been dead two years, and of her three brothers, all in uniform, two are away at war. The father sends weekly carbons to his four children––word of each and every and news of the war typically. Carol arranges the crèche and admires the tree all right, but she also likes writing medium bad sonnets and plans to kiss “that boy in anyone’s rumpus room if he was once the similar one I thought he was once.” Underneath all that, she dreams about Germans, and genocide.

Recalling her own adolescent thinking, and thinking of what adolescents experience now, Carol Bly comes to a few astonishing conclusions.

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