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Welcome back to Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday, where writers come together to share 8 sentences of whatever they wish. This is Week 6 for me.

The story continues from FORTY YEARS IN A DAY. Victoria and her four children arrived at her brother Dominick's tenement apartment: a three room railroad flat in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Victoria is completely exhausted and sleeps through the next day, obviously comforted by the fact that her sister-in-law, Genevieve, was caring for the children. She wakes to find everyone at the kitchen table.
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Vincenzo enthusiastically greeted her, “Good morning, Mama, but it’s really night time.” He chuckled.

“You’ve slept away the day. We’re about to have dinner,” Dominick said.

“We went for a walk with Aunt Genevieve. There’re so many people here…and tall buildings!” Gennaro said.

“There’re wagons where you can get all kinds of food for a coin,” Vincenzo added. “We even saw a train pass over our heads. It was so loud, we covered our ears.”

Baffled by their strange narrative, Victoria was both surprised and relieved that her children seemed to be assimilating themselves to their new surroundings. She had prayed they would be able to forget all the grief and horror they had witnessed, and the process seemed to have miraculously begun. She glanced at Genevieve with thankful eyes only another mother could understand.

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