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[00:01.50]Lesson 57
[00:03.54]Back in the old country
[00:12.65]Did the narrater find his mother's grave?
[00:18.18]I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map.
[00:22.74]I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me.
[00:29.09]I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago.
[00:35.66]When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness.
[00:43.50]Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound.
[00:49.58]So he decided to emigrate.
[00:52.06]In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve.
[01:00.53]He did not marry again and I was brought up without a woman's care;
[01:05.56]but I lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me.
[01:10.71]He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay.
[01:14.80]His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land.
[01:20.03]But he wanted to see the old folk againand to visit my mother's grave.
[01:25.18]He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own.