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Marta’s father has been held in an internment camp since the beginning of World War II on the suspicion of being a spy. Marta has always been adamant that her father was not a spy, but rather a man who went mad after the death of his wife. Marta and her family have lived in Canada since she was 9, and now in her 30s, she is having to try to prove her patriotism. Marta has received the news that her father is being released. She was not given a reason for his release, and he has gone even madder
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Marta: And he’ll be home again next Sunday, they said. Eve: You must be ecstatic. Marta: I don’t understand. They lock him up for all these years. Like he was a master spy. He’s sixty years old! Now they turn him loose. There’s still a war on. He still gives tobacco to the German POWs/ He hasn’t lost his accent. Or his opinions. But they send him home. They don’t give any reasons.
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Eve: He wouldn’t hurt you, would he? After he comes back? Marta: No, I don’t think so.
Citation: John Murrell, Waiting for the Parade, Talonbooks, 1980, pp. 82-84.
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