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TALKING HEADS

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What year were you born?

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Who are you?

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What do you most wish for?

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I'm two years old.

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- Who are you?
- I'm Waldek.

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- And what do you want?
- Nothing.

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- Who are you?
- A little boy.

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What would you like?

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To be a Syrena car.

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- Who are you?
- 1 don't know.

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What would you like?

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To paint horses
and have a horse.

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I'm an ugly brunette.

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I'd like to leave school
and have a lovely baby.

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I'm not really sure who I am,

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but I love reading books best.

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I'd like to go
to America most of all.

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I suppose I'm a little
different from my friends.

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I'd like the pope
to come to Poland.

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I'm not yet fully prepared

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to make serious decisions as yet.

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What I'd like most in daily life

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is for people to treat
one another with more respect.

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People should take
more notice of one another.

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There should be
more love within society.

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I'm a bit selfish and egotistical.

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I'm not respectful to everyone,

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and yet I'm a friendly person.

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It sounds odd, but it's true.

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What would I like?
To change my personality.

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I wish I didn't have my character flaws.
I'd be happier that way.

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When I set my mind
on achieving something, I usually do.

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What would I like?

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I'd like everyone
to do things for others.

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To not just look out
for themselves

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but for others too.

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And I'd like them to understand

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that material things alone
don't create happiness.

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I see myself as a person
from an orphanage.

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I'd like all people
to have a happy childhood.

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I'd like everyone
to have a beautiful childhood.

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I'm an easy-going person
who doesn't cause trouble.

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I go through life with a smile...

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and I'd like things to stay that way.
It helps me in life.

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I'm a girl who doesn't

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really know
how to reconcile her dreams

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with their practical realization.

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I'd like to be more certain

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of my criteria for evaluating people
and to know good from bad.

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I would describe myself

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as a carefree optimist
and a dreamer.

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I'd like to get out of the city...

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and live closer to nature and animals.

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To tell the truth...

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I'm still a nobody...

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and I will be for some time.

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But in the future...

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I'd like to find out...

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what it means to be
a human being.

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At this point in my life
I'm still taking.

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I'm still acquiring
experience and values.

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What I'd like —
what I think everyone would like —

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is freedom in the broadest
sense of the word,

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the kind of freedom
that doesn't favor the strongest.

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I'm a student,

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so fortunately I still have time
before making a final decision

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that I guess will bind me
for the rest of my life.

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I don't like the aggression
underlying human relations.

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People hate and fear
each other terribly.

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I'd like them to realize
that the real reasons lie without

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and start fighting them.

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I'm a single mother, alone at home.

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Here at the clinic
I feel I'm close to people.

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One day I'd like
to save a person's life

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and know that I did that by myself,
single-handedly.

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I'm a young graduate
in engineering,

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still full of high moral values
and work ethics.

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I'd like to stay that way
in the years to come.

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I'm a driver.

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I'd like the Polish people
to work harder.

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I'm a mountain climber.

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Here there's no way to take
the true measure of a person,

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only in the high mountains.

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For me, the most important thing
is that we all live courageously.

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I'm no different from
other people, to be honest.

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I'd most like for people...

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not to let their fear of others

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get in the way of what they do,
whether trivial or important.

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I'd just like people
not to fear each other.

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I've worked
in many different positions.

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I've been an office clerk.

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Now I'm an electrician,
which gives me more job satisfaction.

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As for the future,
I don't think my generation

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should worry too much
about the future.

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They should seize the day.

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That's always been my philosophy.

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I consider myself

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a realist.

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What would I like?

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To provide a modest
but sufficient living for my family.

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I'm a history teacher.

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What matters most to me
is freedom for each person

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to decide their own fate
and make their own choices.

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I'm a Catholic.

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I'd like to have my own house,
my own place to live.

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I consider myself a humanist.

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It may seem unrealistic,
but what I want in life

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is to see democracy and tolerance
introduced for real

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and not just talked about.

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Currently I'm
a full-time board member

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of an organization
for youth in a factory.

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One day I'd like to be an activist
in the field of economics,

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which would correspond
to my current university studies.

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I seem to have practically everything

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an average person
should want and have.

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That's all right,
but I feel something's missing.

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I'm at that stage in life

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where I'd like to make some changes,
achieve something.

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I don't know what,
but something different.

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I work, but more importantly,
I have two children.

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What bothers me most
is cronyism and opportunism.

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And I'd like
more kindness and reason.

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I'm a sociologist and a father

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and a state worker.

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I think the most important thing

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is to fulfill one's roles
with a clear conscience.

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It may sound banal,
but in fact it's very difficult.

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I have two children,
and I've written two novels.

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My fears?

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Recently I saw a foreign
postage stamp with a saying on it:

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“The ability to write
is the root of democracy.”

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I fear that lack
of real public debate —

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which these days is all fabricated —

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and a lack of exchange of ideas,

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which is something vital
to me as a writer,

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and the declining number of new books,
the vehicles for new thoughts,

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may result in what
that envelope alluded to:

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the demise of democracy.

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I'm a worker to the core.

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I wish people were more honest...

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and there was better justice.

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Ever since I gave up
being an academic

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and became a taxi driver,
I feel more free.

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But I realize that
personal freedom isn't enough.

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To be really liberated and free,

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one must live in a democracy

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and have a sense of security.

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Personal freedom isn't enough.

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I'm a chemical engineer,

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but now I drink.

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What would I like?

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Nothing. Everything's just fine.

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Who am I? That's a very
difficult question.

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We all have to live up
to so many different expectations

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that we can't always be one thing.

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However, I'm very clear
about what I'd like:

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to live in a real world,
not one of fiction and facade.

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I live in Warsaw.
I'm a sociologist.

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I have a strong sense
of responsibility

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and little sense of humor.

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I suppose those two traits
don't help much in life.

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As for my wishes...

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they're in this order:

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On a personal level

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I wish for good health
for myself and my loved ones,

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and on a wider scale,

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I wish for less suffering
and humiliation for people

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in my country
and all over the world.

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I'm on the boundary
between two mysteries.

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One is the natural world,
since I'm a human being.

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But the other is very strong too,

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and that's my religion,
questions of faith,

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my relationship with God.

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It makes me happy personally...

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and also gives me joy
because I can help others

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to be better people
and to be happy.

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What do I wish for?

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To paraphrase
a well-known exhortation —

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i.e., “Workers of the world, unite!” —

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I'd like all good people to unite,

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and not against someone else
but simply to unite in good.

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All my life I've tried —

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and usually managed —

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not to lie,

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to always be honest.

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What would I like?
I'd like people...

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to be grateful to each other.

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All my life

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I've given and I've worked...

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to the best
of my ability and health.

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Now there's a competition
for a monument to Juliusz Stowacki.

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I'd like to put together
a good proposal for that.

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I live with my memories:

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from before the war,
then the underground,

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and then the great
postwar reconstruction.

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Not all my dreams
from that time came true.

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I'd like them to come true

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for my sons,
or perhaps my grandsons.

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I'm a humanist...

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in my profession
and in my convictions.

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I'm convinced
it's most important to observe

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the right of every human being

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to his or her own views
and dignity.

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Most of all I wish...

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for peace,
for myself and for the world.

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I've been a widow for two weeks.

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I was left a widow two weeks ago
by my late husband, Stanistaw.

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That's all.

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What do I want? Nothing.

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Yes...

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I'm 100 years old.

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And what would you like?

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How much more do I want?

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I'd like to live longer.

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To live longer.