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ward the abandoned house. The family eats lunches and dinners of wild birds. Daria collects the new buds that are sprouting on the trees. The cottage is getting cold and humid. Father and son work on an other trap to catch the local field rodents, the sisals. A letter from a former neighbor arrives from the Caucasus offering a moment of hope for a better life away from the village, but Daria remembers her trip to the city and decides against it. Corpses are col lected. Myron, once again, decides to leave home. He travels great distances and reaches his native village but there is no one to greet him there; the village is silent and deserted. At the district capital, Myron reaches the govern ment buildings and notices that they are all yellow. Inside the buildings the yellow grain is rotting. Myron buys a kilo of sauerkraut and catches a train. At a transfer station, he hears that there is fish for sale. Then people are rounded up and forced to truck platforms like cattle, including Myron. The trucks are driven to a station where everyone is transferred to fret wagons and taken away. When the train stops, the wagon doors open and the passengers are thrown into an open pit filled with a huge devouring fire. It is Hell: People are burning alive. Myron’s fall into the abyss is broken by a branch, then some roots. Miraculously he manages to escape and stum bles on a dead man’s bag: it contains bread! Myron walked until morning, taking pathways where he thought he could avoid “them. ” At a de serted train station, Myron meets a man by the name of Petro who works at a wood mill. Petro offers Myron some food and they talk about work oppor tunities. With this man’s help, Myron finds work on a farm. He receives a salary and some corn flour; he bakes his first bread. He learns how to steal horses. But Myron does not have proper documents and knows he must leave. On trains and in train stations Myron learns about other people’s hardships: par ents deported to Arkangelsk where they died, the long trek of 800 kilometers on foot to Siberia, ice water tortures during which a woman’s boots were filled with water and frozen, then broken off her body. Myron realizes that he has changed. He has become indifferent to horror. So many horrible ac counts and he has no ability to feel compassion. Such things are now commonplace, normal. Here death has assumed epic proportions, no longer concerned with individuals. Fire engulfs the living. The freezing Siberian plains claim other lives. Thousands turn to millions. Copyright Helene N. Turkewicz-Sanko, Ph.D. October 2005, John Carroll University ( Editor's Note: This series will conclude in next month's issue of Our Life.) We w ould like to th a n k our authors fo r the w onderful articles that they contribute to Our Life during the year. We also appreciate com m ents from our readers and hope that you w rite and share your opinions about the m aterials that w e publish. Please forw ard your articles to E nglish language editor Tam ara Stadnychenko c /o UNWLA headquarters. We a sk that all contributors include a telephone num ber to allow u s to acknow ledge subm issions and verify information. 14 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 2005 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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