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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 444360" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I never did know who raised the brother and the older sister. We were told so little about it back then, I had no idea that the parents had died in the fire too. He also said that the one who came to the kindergarten classroom looking for the school papers must have been some other relative, not the teenaged sister. He said that the older sister had been severely burned and was hospitalized for more than six months after the fire so it couldn't have been her. I'm not worried about it and I'm sure the brother is "harmless", I just wouldn't want to stir up a lot of sad feelings for him. I'm just glad to know that it made him feel good to find out that someone still remembers his little sister after all this time.</p><p></p><p>We sure have come far in the way they handle things like that with young children, thank goodness! I remember not really understanding what had happened and being so afraid that our house would catch on fire. And a few years later, we were having air raid drills and being told that crawling under our little wooden school desks and putting our hands over our heads would save us when (not "if" but "when") the atomic bombs started falling on us! We were little but we weren't stupid enough to believe that! It's a wonder that any of us in my generation ever managed to grow up and become halfway functional adults!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 444360, member: 1883"] I never did know who raised the brother and the older sister. We were told so little about it back then, I had no idea that the parents had died in the fire too. He also said that the one who came to the kindergarten classroom looking for the school papers must have been some other relative, not the teenaged sister. He said that the older sister had been severely burned and was hospitalized for more than six months after the fire so it couldn't have been her. I'm not worried about it and I'm sure the brother is "harmless", I just wouldn't want to stir up a lot of sad feelings for him. I'm just glad to know that it made him feel good to find out that someone still remembers his little sister after all this time. We sure have come far in the way they handle things like that with young children, thank goodness! I remember not really understanding what had happened and being so afraid that our house would catch on fire. And a few years later, we were having air raid drills and being told that crawling under our little wooden school desks and putting our hands over our heads would save us when (not "if" but "when") the atomic bombs started falling on us! We were little but we weren't stupid enough to believe that! It's a wonder that any of us in my generation ever managed to grow up and become halfway functional adults! [/QUOTE]
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