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1 " But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard. I will say it was the time in my life when I learned all of us is fragile as a mimosa blossom. But the miracle of all is, When push comes to shove, we can be just as tough as Hickory. It mostly hurts at first. After a while it starts to feel better. "
― Joyce Moyer Hostetter , Blue (Ann Fay Honeycutt, #1)
2 " The last day of April, Hitler killed himself—which was a sure sign the war wasn’t going his way. "
3 " Some people can’t even breathe when they get polio,” said Junior. “They have to lay in an iron lung with nothing but their head sticking out. It’s like a big barrel that does the breathing for them. "