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Posted by: gamahuche 1 year, 3 months ago
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gamahuche1 year, 3 months ago
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You did very well! I commend you for it but I'm sure you were sufficiently rewarded by that encounter with history in the making - a very different experience from reading about it or seeing it on TV.
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My father, whom I was not to meet for another 6 years [a separation of 25 years to the day] was a radio presenter in Prague at that time. Some 25 years later, when I was living in NYC, I found an exhibition of a famous Czech photographer called Sudek, in Soho, close to where I worked. I visited it almost every day and eventually the gallery owners gave me a contact to the people who had created the exhibition. She was Czech, he Italian, and they had been virtually the only photographers left in Prague when the tanks rolled in.
I called them and got the inevitable answering machine but some 6 months later received a call and a meeting took place at which they gave me a picture of my Dad doing his radio show in 1968. So small is the world - and we deceive ourselves mightily whenever we imagine that something that happens in another part of it has nothing to do with us.
A leaf that drops from a tree in Asia has an impact in Europe and in America.
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