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Spoiled rotten,” could mutters, lugging her little sister up the final fights to the fourth ground. Stephie laughs. “And who’s guilty for spoiling her? ” she asks. “I comprehend, i do know! ” Gunnel, who’s 8, comes operating up the steps after them, desirous to inform them approximately anything that occurred in school. She takes Stephie through the hand, chatting eagerly. Gunnel is continually admiring Stephie’s black hair, darkish eyes, and moderate accessory. She even attempts to mimic the best way Stephie speaks Swedish. She continually desires to be conserving Stephie’s hand or sitting on her lap. Stephie is excited to enable her. yet sometimes, as Gunnel sits on her lap and twirls a lock of Stephie’s lengthy hair, Stephie’s judgment of right and wrong bothers her. She begins brooding about Nellie, her personal more youthful sister who nonetheless lives at the island together with her foster mom and dad, Auntie Alma and Uncle Sigurd. seeing that Stephie left to wait grammar institution in Göteborg, she sees Nellie just one weekend a month and on institution vacation trips. Nellie is ten now, occurring 11, a huge woman who doesn’t are looking to sit down on anyone’s lap. in the past, once they left Vienna prior to the warfare, Stephie promised their mom and dad that she may look after Nellie. Stephie isn’t definite she has lived as much as that promise. 2 Stephie unlocks the door with the main she and will proportion. Britten has one in every of her personal, however the more youthful young children aren’t allowed domestic till may perhaps and Stephie go back from institution, or except their mom finishes her house responsibilities task and will get domestic first. There’s a yellowish card at the doormat inside of. Stephie selections it up, realizing with out even having a look what it truly is. Early final autumn, she stopped receiving letters from her mom and dad in Vienna. For a number of months, neither Stephie nor Nellie heard something from them. Stephie’s anxiousness tightened uncomfortably in her abdominal day by day, week after week, month after month. in spite of everything, a card arrived, similar to the single she’s keeping in her hand. It got here from Theresienstadt, a camp in Czechoslovakia, now not faraway from Prague. The Germans had accumulated hundreds of thousands of Jews there—men, girls, and youngsters from Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, and Prague. Stephie and Nellie will be there now, too, if their mom and dad hadn’t despatched them to Sweden whereas there has been nonetheless time. The playing cards from Theresienstadt are constantly exact. clean playing cards, like postcards yet with no images. And with little or no textual content. Stephie has counted the phrases. except for the date and signature, there are continually precisely thirty. She thinks humans within the camp most likely aren’t allowed to jot down greater than thirty phrases. She imagines an individual sitting and counting the phrases on hundreds of thousands of these playing cards. No ask yourself it takes not less than a month, occasionally even longer, for them to reach. On one of many first playing cards, Papa requested Stephie if she may perhaps attempt to ship foodstuff. He didn’t say what they wanted, yet Aunt Märta helped Stephie fill a field with canned items, dried fruit, oatmeal, and darkish bread that stored good. Now they arrange a package deal whenever Stephie is going domestic to the island. Aunt Märta can pay for part the meals, and Stephie saves her pocket funds to pay for the opposite part.