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Some of us have the privilege of experiencing an epiphany, and this weekend I met mine.
Whilst visiting the Holocaust Museum, I sat down to take a break...to absorb what I had taken in, feeling quite overwhelmed.
She was beside me and asked what the last paragraph said on the wall. Noticeably broken in spirit as she began to speak, asking over and over in broken English..'Why didn't they just
bomb the railroad, why didn't they bomb the railroad?'
I was confused at first, then realized she was there. She was just a child of 15. I can't
even imagine the horrors she went through. No one can, unless it happened to you.
She sat to take a break, too. Gathering strength to walk through the boxcar, 'My Mother's picture
is there on the wall...................'
I asked how one gets through something like that, and she said...............'You don't.'
I began to say 'I hope you've had many more joys in your life than..........{{{and she started to cry}}}....that tore my heart apart. The sadness in her heart and eyes tore my heart apart.
Even after all those years, she's reminded of it every day.
I can only pray her torture ends, and she's reunited with her family once again.
Felicia, you're in my head and heart.
Maria Tallchief was acknowledged as the most technically accomplished ballerina ever produced in America. Her first husband was George Balanchine!
Her father was an Osage Indian, and her mother was of Scottish-Irish heritage. Her sister, Marjorie, also was a ballerina. I recall my mother and maternal grandmother telling my sister and I about them, as we are of Irish/Illini descent. My younger sister daydreamed of being a ballerina as a little girl, but her health didn't allow for that.
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