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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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