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So Andreanska was the woman from
Slovakia who was with him when

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he died, his friend.

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This is called "Death Bed."

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I should tell you a
tiny little story.

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Daniel was 11 when the
Warsaw Pact countries invaded

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Czechoslovakia.

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And he wanted to do something.

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His father was very
active against this.

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And what he did was he and his
friends went out in Bratislava.

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And they turned all
the street signs around

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and stole some of them.

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And the Soviets got lost
invading Bratislava.

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They had tanks and trucks
and armored vehicles

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and everything.

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So they mistakenly
crossed into Austria.

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So actually, they invaded
a NATO country, you see.

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And when they found out three
kilometers in, where they were,

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they turned around
and run raced back.

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Very few people know about this
little invasion that happened.

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But it could have been
World War whatever.

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OK, this is "Death Bed."

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"So Andreanska, you were
with him in his final hours,

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and I give you that, speaking
the language I understood only

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in the kitchen of childhood.

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For you, a lamplight language
spoken in tomato gardens

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and prison camps
by those sent away

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and those who let them be
sent, so many words for no one

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and nothing until
history came for them

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too with its years of
industry and waste, a tram

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pulling black smoke
behind itself.

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These are the suitcases
manufactured in communist times

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from balsa and tin.

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Here are the books,
ink on vellum,

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sold by hoodlums on
the black market.

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We must have crossed the bridge
a dozen times those nights.

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But can you imagine--
alone, with no one

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from whom to borrow a match.

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There appeared a
Russian deserter

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from Afghan war, who drew
caricatures for small change,

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but never drew our likeness.

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And some nights, there was
singing beneath stone angels.

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But we were otherwise alone.

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Our Svetko's memories were
of the scent of garlic fields

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beside the river and of riding
in the basket of his father's

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bicycle along its banks.

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On the night of
the invasion, there

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was a radio and red star jeeps
that would become white star

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jeeps in the west.

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He, with his friends, turned
the street signs around.

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And the enemy by
mistake, marched

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into Austria, the
only such invasion

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in the history of that war.

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So it is over, as you tell me.

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When he closed his
eyes, there were swans.

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You took his hand on the last
bridge and made him laugh.

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You have my yes, Andreanska."