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On a chilly November morning in 1940, Josephine sat in a train car on the first leg of a long journey to Portugal.

She was wrapped in a large fur coat and an elegant hat was perched on her head.

Josephine leaned back against the velvet cushion seat.

Then she turned to the man sitting right behind her.

He looked, unassuming, with a thick mustache, small round glasses, and a drab gray coat.

Eber, can't see I'm going in the valley,

if you play, and it's a tension, he's

on tanshous.

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