"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Part 2: "Hiroshima 1945-1979"

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Miss. Fumiko Habu
age: 41; occupation: unemployed; family: none
<at that time> age: 8; in a streetcar (1,500 meters from the hypocenter); mother died.

"A streetcar conductor came to us and said he would take ou to Koi in his streetcar. So I got on with my friend. I was sticking my head out of the driver's window. And just when we came in front of the Red Cross Hospital..." (written at age 14)

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