“Relax!” she said. “It’s not important! When you’ve been in a death camp, you get to see that missing an airplane really doesn’t matter very much.”
I felt ashamed to have displayed before such a woman a preoccupation with trivia characteristic of our incredibly privileged generation. The credit crunch is alarming. But, in the context of modern experience such as that which Edith Gabor knew, it really does not matter very much.
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