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Article: Linden Tree
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- July 9, 2004
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CAROLYN SLUTSKY
Jerusalem Post
07-09-2004
Headline: Linden Tree
Byline: CAROLYN SLUTSKY
Edition; Literary Supplement
Section: Books
Page: 11
Friday, July 9, 2004 -- No one would deny it is a city of ghosts. Nobody could.
Mariusz and I walk the same cobblestones that have lined these streets, and what history lies beneath them, for more years than my country, America, has existed. Or it existed, but it wasn't discovered, and what is existence, after all, if no one is looking? He holds my hand, clammy, slipping. He holds my sore fingers, but his own hand is limp, like he's pulling an unwilling child, or a wheelbarrow, along with him.
We walk through the Planty, the small ring of grass around the ...