Cousins Death

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I remember when I was about 14 my aunt who had a telephone was supposed to be coming to see us this particular Sunday afternoon — I went to the telephone box to see where she was. I found out then that my cousin had been killed in a tank in France. It was a terrible thing to hear when you where only a young teenager.

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