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Seit Schulende um drei hat sie niemand mehr gesehen.
No one has seen her since school dismissal at three-thirty.
Wenn das Schulende verkündet wurde, jubelten wir und rannten hinaus und spielten im Schnee, und unsere Schlitten warteten schon neben der Haustür auf uns.
When the school closings were announced, we cheered and dashed outside to play in the snow, and our sleds would already be waiting for us beside the front door.
Einmal beobachtete ich ihn nachmittags, kurz vor Schulende, wie er Fliegen fing und ihnen brutal die Flügel ausriss. Entsetzt brüllte ich auf und ohrfeigte ihn.
I well remember one day, just before afternoon school, I found him at the large window catching flies and pulling off their wings. He did not see me and I gave him a box on the ears that laid him sprawling on the floor. Well, angry as I was, I was almost frightened, he roared and bellowed in such a style.
Drei Monate vor seinem vierzehnten Geburtstag, gleich bei Schulende im Juni, hatte er an dem Ort zu arbeiten begonnen, der die Kulisse und den einzigen Möglichkeitshorizont seines Lebens darstellen sollte: die Fabrik.
He hadn’t even reached the age of fourteen (school ended in June, and he began working right away, and only turned fourteen three months later) when he found himself in the surroundings that would be his for the rest of his life, chasing the only horizon that was open to him: the factory.
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