Colm Toibin - I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, althou...

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I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Colm Toibin

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich glaube, die ganze Sache der Menschen, die auswandern, bestand darin, dass ihnen nie jemand davon erzählte, obwohl jeder wusste, vor allem, wenn es in die Vereinigten Staaten ging, dass es für immer war und dass die Partei vor Ihrer Abreise als "amerikanischer Wake" bezeichnet wurde das Gefühl, dass sie wussten, dass Sie nicht zurückkommen würden.

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