Word: lain
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Thursday, Edith Zierer was waiting for him. Fifty-five years ago, recently liberated from a Nazi work camp, the 14-year-old girl had walked as far as she could toward Krakow and then had lain down, expecting to die of exhaustion. "I was with swollen feet and with nothing to continue in my heart," she recalled. Suddenly a priest [actually a seminarian] appeared, dressed in brown, "strong and tall and very handsome...It was as if someone from the heavens had been sent down to me." He brought her tea, bread and cheese, then carried her on his back...