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Weekly Contest #345
He Wasn’t the SameUnion County, IowaFriday, June 8, 19459:21 a.m. Eighteen-year-old Jakub Nowak, the youngest son of Polish immigrant farmers, settled into a thinly padded seat for the longest train-trip of his life. He was bound for Chicago—but that brief stop was only a fraction of his punishing journey. Exactly one month after Germany surrendered, ending the war in Europe, Jakub sat in quiet contemplation processing the magnitude of his decision. Deep in thought, the familiar scent of his mother’s perfume wafted up from his shirt collar...
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