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Show 42 be regarded as a standard tourist sight. "Would you like to go?" she asks, and he finds that he has taken her hand, is holding i t gently in his. "That's where your family's from, isn't it?" He pauses, thinking. "We've never been there." She smiles again. "Just the people on my father's side. He was born here. She points to an infinitestimally tiny village on the map. "There are relatives here"-she points to another village-"and here, and here. I'd like to say goodbye to them." "Goodbye?" "Do you want to come with me?" He turns away. "You don't know those people," he says. "I don't see the point of it." She tries to explain, but he does not understand, and in the end he rises up from the position in which he has been crouching beside her on the floor. He goes quickly out of the room, leaving the door ajar. |