Survival in Paris

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"My grandmother on my father’s side, she was living in Paris. She wasn’t able to come with us at all, and she was hidden—or not hidden—but she lived in a “senior citizens”—we’d call it—home. And eventually she came out and joined us in California.

They just never came for her, and I don’t think anybody—I guess 'ratted' on her would be the word we use today—but nobody 'denounce' her is the word they used in those days, so she just had to stay indoors and she couldn’t go very far from where she was, and she—unfortunately—she became very overweight just by being sedentary like that."