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Submitted to Contest #80
The Box of Life The city of LVIV (formerly Poland until the Nazi invasion). Now Ukraine, USSR. June 1941. ‘Take this and hide it.’ Father presses a wooden box to my chest. The box I was forbidden to touch when I was a child. It has our family crest of three crowns, inlaid into the lid: the mark of the Polish aristocracy. Once it was a symbol of...
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