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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...3-127-X Printed in the United States of America Book Design: SP To all the people in my life Thank you for everything you have taught me and continu... ...aby The child, screaming out of the mother's womb, stares unseeingly at the people in white; this hospital her first home, nestling in a sleepy Engli... ...olent insanity? 12 The Mother A child of East Prussian woods and forests, a German outpost dwarfed by the Russian giant nearby. Skiing to school in ... ...ffed with bullets and shells but with Russian prisoners' coats, destined for German soldiers at the front, then by train to Prague... But a city in tu... ...Application intense and energy immense, no problem for this woman of German descent. Hard work her friend, her family and house her rewards in this l... ...ailing, too, though he's nearly lost in turbulent seas, on a trip across the Baltic with friends from school, thrown into the sea, all possessions gon... ...tic with friends from school, thrown into the sea, all possessions gone, but Swedish rescuers arrive in time, fishing him from bitterly cold water, fi...

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