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Antonina: People’s first instinct is to run when they are scared and they don’t know what’s coming.
Jan: I was raised with these people. Jews, Gentiles—never mattered to me.
Antonina: No one knows how hard it is to be on the run… You can never tell who your enemies are, who to trust. I guess that’s why I like animals so much. You look in their eyes and you know exactly what’s in their hearts.
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