Benny, Dressmaker s Son - english

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Translated by Olga Redekop.     http://www.proza.ru/avtor/heile

Gabriella got pregnant as she turned 21. That time she had already been working at a clothes factory in Hamburg. Now it makes no difference how they met, but it was incredible love, but for one side only – Gabriella fell in love with all her heart, meanwhile a stranger American guy considered her to be a temporary toy. Played and vanished like he had never turned up before. Not knowing and wanting though he left something in Gabriella’s womb. What pushed Gabriella to save the baby – cowardice or, what is more possible, hope – he did love her, he wouldn’t eat, sleep, one day he would return, kneel and see – here’s the baby, their baby! He didn’t come and kneel, and Gaby stayed all alone, and named the child in honor of that rascal – Benny.

Gabriella rented apartment jointly with a neighbor girl, but just before the child-bearing that girl had found another apartment and gone away because she wanted silence and calm, and what calm can you imagine with a baby? Benny came to the world seven-month, stayed at maternity hospital longer than others, Gabriella was allowed to go home only when he reached normal weight. The baby happened to be calm enough; he almost never cried and, basically, slept.

When Gabriella had a maternity leave (in Germany it lasts 2 years), she was working to her utmost – she was sewing clothes by order with her granny’s machine. Her mother and granny sewed as well, so Gabriella could make anything nice – starting with underwear and finishing with fur coat. Little by little she got constant customers. Benny was an apple of her eyes, she spoiled him as she could, he was her everything, her life, her air. Benny in his turn adored mum, she was the best, the most beautiful for him, she was his Mother!

When Benny was nine, Mum put him onto a stool and used him as a dummy. He could stand like this for hours feeling her light touches with either a needle or slight moves of fabric… Those her touches, those her so light and tender touches made Benny walk on the seventh sky. He liked on purpose to tear or lose his belongings so that sweet mum could take his measurement of waist, hips, chest, and he again could have her wonderful touches. He was magnified seeing her bending aside, directly at table and writing down figures. Mummy! His mummy is a dressmaker, and what? Who else could experience these light touches, and how happy Benny was being a dummy.

At twelve Benny started working with his school-friend, who had both mother and father. They distributed ads, papers, moreover Benny cleaned at a Turkish guy’s shop from 10 to eleven and the master gave him aged food. Every day Benny brought something home, sometimes even more that his child’s hands could bear. Being asked about a working kid a Turkish guy replied, ‘That’s my son’. After this Benny questioned mum of his father, and she answered that dad was an American, was called Ben, but she didn’t know his full name, and if he hadn’t come himself, Benny would hardly find him.
- Benny, d’u think bad about me?
- No, Mum, you’re the best ever!

Summer came and brought long-awaited holidays and Mum sent Benny to her elder sister who lived in a village. Benny’s aunt had no family, for a little time she was married to an old man, he passed away and she got the house. Benny would be a burden to her, she simply gave him money, much money, a front door key, showed where she kept a spare one (in a fence in case he lost the first key), showed his room at the attic with personal toilet and shower (they shared the kitchen however). Benny’s aunt filled the fridge with food products as well as larder and wall unit of wine, and quickly left for Spain for the whole summer to rest and please herself in Majorca.



Benny missed mum, and he was not guilty and had no notion of what would be if mum fell in love, and in deep love? He returned home and saw presented step-dad who had been living by them already and immediately ordered to call him ‘daddy’. Soon they moved to another district of Hamburg, to a four-room apartment where this bumpkin’s mother lived. The aim was pretty noble – to care of the old woman if she asked. Willy (Benny’s new ‘father’) was a garbage collector, he pulled out garbage skips, connected them to the truck and garbage automatically was moved into the collector.

Long ago Willy was going in for sports, he dragged his cups and medals from this mother. Cups took the whole wall in the sitting-room, and medals were put for reviewing to the wall unit. Once a month he played bowling with his lads, sometimes took Benny’s mother with him. And Benny he treated well. Gabriella was pregnant, suffered from toxicosis, felt bad, got skinny, stopped sewing. Customers disappeared, and that was approved by Willy – he didn’t like unknown men coming into house, my home is my fortress, right? He was working all day, and once jokingly asked Benny to massage his feet. He washed them in warm water in a basin kept near the sofa, dried them, lied to the sofa, and Benny sat beside and massaged till Willy started snoring. Then Benny covered him with a blanket and moved to his room. In the morning as a rule Willy came to Benny, thanked him, asked about school, gave pocket money.

Mother brought into life a girl, she was named Anna. Full attention of parents was focused on her. As for Benny – he seemed to disappear. He could have not been invited to dine, not asked why he had come from school so late, and if he had been there or not. Benny thought it was normal for all families with new-born kids. Let Anna become older, and everything will be all right, like before, Benny will be remembered. But… it didn’t happened so, parents didn’t come back to Benny, step-father showed hatred to the boy, and Benny had to massage his feet straight after Willy had dinner – and got no money at all. But not everything was that bad…

Benny fell in love with his class-mate! Erica took all his thoughts, and he ran to school only to see her, dreamed about her at home. In summer there occurred something that pushed Benny away from Erica.
His friend who Benny was going to school together with invited him to go to the sea to Cuxhaven city. At nine a.m. Benny was at their place. He didn’t tell parents where he was about, just grabbed his bag pack, opened the door and went away. To his surprise his mum walked to the balcony and asked:
- Where are going Benny? Want to escape from home?
- No, mum, Alex and his parents take me to the sea for a day, they get there with their truck, I’ll be here tonight.
- Aha, all right then.

And she returned to the sitting-room. Benny hastened walking and thought, ‘That’s ok, soon Anna becomes older, everything returns back and they will love me like before! Though… Alex has a small brother, Andreas, and their fossils treat them the same. And Andreas is as old as Anna! I will watch… Perhaps this is so because Alex’s mother is Russian and father is American, may be that is the reason?’
Not far from the place where they were staying there was nudists’ beach, just behind a small short one meter-high fencelike. Benny and Alex were looking up there but only when Alex’s parents went to buy cola and juice. In the afternoon quick low-tide began. Where people swam before one could walk, somewhere there were small pools. Alex and Benny moved farther to water, it was a thin strip at the skyline, and faraway ships were like toys. Benny and Alex were chatting; two teen-girls were coming towards them. One of them called the boys:
- Ben, Alex?
The girls came up to them, they were completely naked, evidently they left the nudists’ beach. Those were Erica and another girl who was also their classmate. The girls behaved naturally, they were giggling and merrily talking to the boys, but Ben and Alex both were looking aside, it seemed they didn’t understand what they were asked about, and left the girls.
- Alex, they were smoking! Did you see Erica had a cigarette!
- Don’t pay attention, Ben, forget it!

Alex’s face was red like was undressed not the girls. Since then did Ben never think about Erica, he stopped caring for her. One moment, and everything’s over… well, girls grow quicker than boys. If Erica had noticed how Benny was looking at her before, she lost a chance to be with him. At home even step-dad understands smoking is hazardous, since Anna has appeared, runs to the balcony for a smoke, and here, Erica! Yeah, it’s better not to think about it…

It became unbearable to live at home… step-father didn’t pay much attention to Benny, but now he was trying to find fault in every Benny’s act and underlined his purposelessness not to them but to anything on this Earth.
- Oh no, is it a man? Look at it, he got a spider with a glass and puts it on the glorybind from the balcony! Hey, mother, this girl, he wants a dog, he begged me to have a smallest dog in the room! He has to take it for a walk, foo-r-a-waaalk, I tell you… but you are a loafer! Fool and loafer! Okay, bring a basin for feet and cr;me, make me some massage, I take this fit of you.

Benny lacked air at home. He ran to his room and was recollecting for hours how they were living together with mother, how she loved him, and now she is perfectly another woman. Even her face changed – she looks at Benny as if he was a wall, and always answers ‘ok’ to any of his words, but what does this ‘ok’ mean? She isn’t attentive to what he’s saying. Once, Gaby sent Benny to the shop and asked to put a bag to the Red Cross box. Benny took the bag, and immediately hid it under the stair-case. When he returned from the shop, he arranged everything on shelves and put food to the fridge… and rushed to the staircase, took the bag to the room and locked the door.

There was sister’s staff in the bag, which was small for her, mother’s open-toe sandals with high heels, shoes also with high heels and, oh dear, dress sewn by mum for one of her clients, but she didn’t take it! That’s right, she sewed it on Benny! This dress shook remembrances of that epoch before step-father, in that old apartment, all mother’s love for him… And certainly that luxurious life in the village, at the rich aunt’s house, who is living in such style spending her dead husband’s money that even hasn’t noticed disappearance of something from perfumery, clothes, bijouterie after Benny’s departure. He was afraid to seize a wig, it would be noticeable, but everything rest he carefully hid in his room. It was there like waiting its own time to come.

Time came that moment when Willy bashed Benny up. Anna got lost, he missed her on the playground, ran home to the toilet, came back, all children were playing, but there was no Anna. She left for another playground to play! She herself crossed two big roads and was playing there on her own. Somebody brought there his child and called police. Anna could tell her name, address, but policemen drove her to the police station and enquired juvenile department to know what the family was like. Was Anna ok at home? Called home. Father and mother made sure Anna had gone herself, elder son slipped her. Policemen returned the kid, but warned parents. After this case step-father beated Benny for every trifle, he was in bad mood, the lad got here, does it matter much?

Benny tried not to meet anybody’s eyes more and more often, he sat in the locked room and focused on painting lips, nails on toes. Hand mustn’t move, one must be so concentrated and attentive, everything’s going out of memory…
Underlining eyes he looked at the mirror, reflected a lot if girls could like him, or Willy was right and he, Benny, was of no use indeed? Then he was putting on aunt’s black tights very slowly, they were elastic and could bear no comparison with the feeling of jeans on the body. He straightened up his leg, admired how nice it was in black, and then put on mother’s sandals slowly fastening them. Toes stack out of them, but he cut off the tips and now it was possible to stand in front of the mirror, and even walk. Yes, mirror, once neighbors dismantled a mirror wardrobe and put everything near garbage skips. Benny took all three huge sliding doors and installed them in a row at the wall in his room. The mirrors occupied almost all the wall. Other boys at his age hang onto the wall guitars, emblems of favorite football teams, posters with racing cars or half-naked women; meanwhile Benny had an incredible mirror.

Benny didn’t miss school, there was variety of activities there, but at home he only had to massage father’s legs, or listen, what a rascal and sponger he was on this Planet, or to be beaten by father – not for reason, but just for the last one’s entertainment! That was because he, Benny, was not his own child. Mother became treating Benny as a stranger long ago. But he had to bear it! They had a family, and he… it didn’t matter… Everything was clear without explanations… When father started beating Benny, he began to study worse though was not a smart pupil, let it be the end of school soon, and he may leave them…

Benny finished school with poor C’s, and it was just the time to go serve for military forces. It went without saying that he was not entering any university; perhaps just enter a vocational school? Benny chose alternative service. He was to care for three invalids who lived not far away from his place. He was informed of his duties and their diseases. The first one was Mary, a lonely woman of 35, she had CSIP - cerebral spastic infantile paralysis. Benny did shopping for her and helped about the house.

Emma was Benny’s peer, and fell in mad love with him, trying to express it in any possible ways. But Emma suffered from Down's syndrome, and Benny dreamed of a wife taking after his previous young mother, and she must have skills of sewing. Emma lived by parents, they were so aged that could hardly walk, Emma was a late child. They thought thick mother had a menopause, and then sudden pain – she was taken to maternity hospital – and delivery… what about baby’s moves in the womb? A pregnant woman should have felt them, shouldn’t she? Emma didn’t move, she wanted to survive so much! Benny took her walking along the streets, accompanied her to curing doctors, sometimes helped her old chaps in the garden.

Yan was a moron from birth, always smiling, with an open and at times watering mouth. Yan was 23; he was skinny, tall, kind, but - no mind at all. Benny was reading fairytales aloud, that one was listening and looking at Benny with devotion. When a fairytale came to end, Yan became capricious like a three-year-old baby, mother turned on TV at once – Disney programs, and she and Benny went to the kitchen to drink coffee and chat. Once a month Benny brought all three to invalids’ society. Mery was in a wheelchair run by Benny, Yan and Emma at sides. All city invalids gathered there together, organized parties with performances – schoolchildren were playing, communicated, helped themselves with tasty food. Everyone in this club like in a separate country had own friends and enemies… Life is going on even there; we just have no notion about it.

Benny was pulled to his own community, to people who were similar with him. And he went to transvestites’ club where met a guy above thirty, but they quickly got on. Kurt invited Benny to his home that he inherited from one of relatives; Kurt had never seen that uncle. Earlier Kurt had been living in the center of Germany, but if there is such luck, especially Hamburg, city for careers making, why not? Kurt graduated from institute here, became an architect and independent businessman – he was the owner, boss, secretary, draftsman in one person - company for private houses designing. Business went on as Kurt worked, and he having dressed like a woman found a way to get rid of stress caused by competition.

He, Benny likewise, relieved the stress concentrating on eye-lashes and nails painting, by changing a business suit to tender women’s underwear, putting on a wig, becoming Kat. Kurt had a luxurious vehicle – black BMW, but there was a small pink ladies’ scooter in the same garage. Kurt was popular among women, he was handsome enough, tall, and neighbors couldn’t imagine when a blondy with long hair drove out with a pink scooter, or when they saw a brunet girl with short hair coming out– they all was Kurt.
Benny and Kurt were driving this scooter, hid from the world under their women appearances, escaped from reality – Benny’s father will morally lower him to floor level, Kurt in a woman’s face has not to be a strong man anymore, money and business-partners are of no meaning. These two are happy, they separated themselves from everybody, they are free like birds in the sky.

They were flying along German roads not on purpose, but for pleasure – along highways, there the path went. One time they made up their mind to visit a town where they had been never before. It was not far from highway,  rush hour and ‘girls’ decided to make the way around. They were caught up with a truck, there were four men in it, four guys. The truck was driving near these two pretty women on the pink scooter, guys were attempting to get acquainted. But as soon as they understood those not were girls on the scooter, the truck turned around, knocked the scooter down and drove away.

The scooter flew into the ditch, when it was discovered, Kurt was already dead. Benny was in coma almost a month. At first Benny’s mentees became worried, only then mother and step-father, something was wrong, Benny disappeared. He was found at hospital, lying in coma. Mother and step-father were said he had no ID’s, and his dead friend had his driving license only. They were also said Benny and Kurt were in women’s clothes. That evening step-father beat mother up, ‘Your son is a gay! Shame on you! I did too little beating to him… I should have killed him!’

But… it would be better for Benny not to survive… Benny lost plenty of blood, he had to take haemotherapy, and it occurred so, he got serum with blood AIDS-positive. When he found himself at hospital, his blood was certainly tested, all the more, either he or his dead friend were suspected of homosexsuality. But, this is a scandal – at hospital, in the center of Hamburg, in the most famous institution of the world – an 18-year-old patient was infected with AIDS through blood! Who will admit it, moreover, the patient is in coma? Data in medical records were quickly corrected from negative to positive. All was over… No headache any more. When Benny ‘resurrected’, he was said about that, not at once of course, later they ‘congratulated’ him on a new grief. Parents were also informed that Benny had AIDS in order that they were careful with blood at home. Parents immediately crossed Benny out of their lives. There was no Benny, he was not born, we don’t know him! All the family was recommended to test their blood for AIDS, they did it without waiting. ‘What a rascal and arse this Benny is!’

Benny was transferred from surgery to another hospital, for some reason it was not called a hospital, but blood institute. There were patients with tropical diseases from the whole world, with hepatitis A, B, C, with leukemia – but in different units. Benny was treated with AIDS patients. Those were mainly homosexuals, prostitutes, and such unlucky people like Benny. Doctors informed Benny about everything he should know about the disease. He was stuffed with plenty of pills, Benny already resembled a skeleton, pills damaged his kidneys. When he was walking it seemed to Benny that kidneys hurt so much like they were hanging on a thin string, and he felt how kidneys were swinging with pain this and that way.

There was a psychiatrist, who Benny shared his suspicions with, where from did he get this disease? How did he get it? Benny never ever had sex – with anybody! He had healthy teeth, before the crash he never dealt with chemotherapy, he was in infected there, at hospital! In the place where he was being saved, but what is the reason to rescue such a man, for what kind of life? For sufferings, shame, for rotting alive? Benny felt sorry for Mary, Emma and Yan… but now Benny was in a worse situation than his mentees, former mentees. In a reply the psychiatrist said Benny was delivered there from the crash location with AIDS-positive, now it was impossible to prove anything. Benny felt bad, he was bag of bones, could hardly walk, but he was released from hospital to go ‘home’.

Where – home? Where is his home, where? Does Benny havea, did he ever have it? He was advised to go to hobo jungle, was even given address, and then to social service to ask for accommodation. Benny came to Mary, had a night there, then to Emma’s parents, the third night he spent at Yan and his mother’s place. And where now? Mentee’s families gave him a little money. He went to central railway station, there people like Benny often gather together and drink beer, talk to each other. Benny stood next to one man, suggested beer he just bought, and they started talking. Benny told in short about the crash, disease, his situation. They went to Klaus straight away, he had just got an apartment from social service. He made his way, now it would be easier for Benny to make a quicker way from street to own apartment.

The main thing was to receive documents from relatives. Next day they found out Benny’s step-father had torn all documents and thrown into toilet basin. That was nice… To restore all documents would take so much time… Also he needed money, Benny is already living for what soft-hearted passers-by put into a plastic cup. Benny again felt bad, he needed medicines, as already used those ones he had been given at hospital. Klaus went to his lads, and they suggested the way for earning money for medicines. There and back, as a result… Klaus got drugs shipment for distribution. Quick money was dangerous, but anyway it rescues Benny, doesn’t it? When he got the first income after selling some packs at the square Klaus went to a booth, bought beer, then some more and more, and then at the end those drug addicts-clients robbed him of that packet with goods.
Klaus realized what had happened at home, when he got sober. Italian mafia would kill him. But he didn’t value his life great; because of his hard drinking he lost his wife and two daughters and that living he could never get back. He told Benny nothing about the lost goods, just put money at the table and asked:

- Ben, if you had only a day to live, what would you do?
- I would go to brothel.
- Let’s go then.
- How, what about my disease?
- You know, there are brothels for such people, there are no taboos there, it’s possible
- No, I have never had sex, but if there’s just a day, should I try it, it’s vexing not to do it!
- Benny, how do you feel?
- Ok… today ok… I am fine, I am fine…
- Benny, let’s go… Let’s go now, I’ll go with you, I have just a day to live, cannot tell you why, but just a day more. Let’s imagine this, without a rubber… I had this ages ago, but was so drunk, even don’t remember who with, can you believe it?

Klause and Benny went to the famous red lights street, the most famous one in Europe, there are brothels and analogical houses there, and in side streets and corners life is going on with the same entertainment. The brothel is unpretentious, just for such people who have a day or a bit more to live on this Planet. But it is tidy, like home. Klaus is in one room, Benny is in another. Not even have chosen who is coming, who is serving. Moreover, it’s daytime now, mainly work is in the evening, but client is always right! There no doors, some man in a jeans jacket is hanging about, setting flowers right, in truth he’s adjusting cameras to post in Internet his creativity as a film-making man. Outside one hears noise of passing cars.

A woman had already come to Klaus. Benny heard clothes and shoes falling down and was still waiting that one… who would look like his young mother, could it be possible? Then he could imagine himself with a wife who he had been always dreaming of, who he would never have. He even would feel a bit happy! Maybe he had to undress? Benny took clothes off and laid at the wall, he was so nervous, it was for the first time! He even thought his penis wouldn’t erect because of his excitement? He started to jam and stroke it, and a prostitute caught him doing that.
- What are you doing?
He gave a start and looked at her.
- Oh, I didn’t hear you coming in…
- What are you doing, are you masturbating? But why? You have to get pleasure in natural way.

The woman was much older than Benny, it was difficult to understand how old she was exactly, due to her thinness she could be taken as a girl, but her face black from illness, sunken eyes and almost grey hair made her a woman without age: a girl, a woman, an old woman? Though did it make any difference? Benny had just a day! He didn’t know why just a day, but Klaus said so… What cavils at age could there be? Eat what you have been served; moreover you yourself are a skeleton with black spots on body.

Benny sat on the bed, the woman kneeled and started stroking his penis by a couple of palm moves, and immediately put his organ into the mouth for blow-job. She straightened up and took a red short dress and black tights off, the tights were just the same to those Benny stole from the aunt. She evidently knew one couldn’t see her job in camera, asked Benny to lay on the pillow, his face is better seen in the way… Yes, now Benny’s face and even penis are clearly seen, she’s sitting half-way turned, client’s the same position. Benny closed his eyes and imagined that he was at his home, and not his mother’s home, but his own home that was as big as his dead fiend Kurt’s. He was a prosperous businessman, but Benny had a loved wife taking after his young mother, his mother who loved him then, and she could sew…

Benny couldn’t finish, he was on the prostitute, then she was on him, she was jumping on him, and one could see in camera how she rolled up her eyes, how long will this torture last? Klaus had already moaned and his partner gave a sigh, but no success here… And then, at last, at last Benny finished. Madam ran to wash her lower parts, Benny rested against the pillow and involuntary tears streamed down his cheeks – the dream is over, hours are finishing, next time Benny will hardly be able to afford it once more…

In the street Klaus asked Benny:
- Ben, what do you want to do more in this life?
- I want to stand naked, just in pants in the busiest street of Hamburg holding a poster in hands.
- No problem, Ben, this is your day!
Ben and Klaus bought a black marker, asked the same seller for a big box, string and paper bag. They wrote on cardboard having stretched it to Benny’s height, hung it on the neck with the string and put on the head a paper bag with cuts for eyes. Benny was standing in the center of the busiest street for almost two hours till he understood he could do it no more. The poster read:
‘People, my name is Benny, I had a crash, was in coma for a month and when in …..
Hamburg hospital I was being rescued though chemotherapy I was infected with AIDS. Be careful!!!’ Klaus was sitting next to him on a bench, and from time to time gave Benny a bottle with mineral water. He put it under the bag, pulled head up and drank. People were passing by; only a couple of them read everything written on the poster, the others read the one or two lines.

Benny and Klaus got home in the evening, there was a station wagon there, and dashing lads who appeared like from nowhere pushed them inside. They both were lying on iron floor, when the wagon got open and they went outside, they found themselves almost near that brothel where they ‘rested’ today. But they were taken to completely another house. They those lads started beating them and demand money or goods from Klaus. Klaus honestly told them everything, they didn’t believe and beat him again, they were in gloves in all time in order not to catch disease from blood. Klaus stood on his ground – drugs addicts robbed him. They moved to Benny. He looked so bad, that they didn’t even beat him, just rolled out his hand.

Benny moaned and addressed their boss who made all instruction in Italian, his lads asked the tourted in German:
- Are you Italian mafia?
He grinned and replied:
- We are.
- I’ve heard according to your laws you don’t kill women, children and animals?
- And what?
- I know who appropriated powder.
- Who? Who has it?
- Policemen came to our neighbor, looked for him, I thought they did look for us. Maybe someone reported on Klaus? I jumped out of the window, threw it into a skip, just on the top of garbage, while was lying in wait saw a garbage man, a robust fellow, I even know where he lives, took this pack and hid it in his pocket. Put garbage into a truck and left… What could I do with this hulk?
- What’s his address?
- I know the street, building, as for apartment… but there’s one garbage man only, you can ask neighbors.
Klaus cut it their conversation:
- He tells the truth, he told me the same when I got home.
- Why did you lie to us, you arse?
And they beat him again, now for telling lies.
Boss addressed Benny:
- I know this guy, but who are you? Where from?
- I am Benny… dressmaker’s son.
- And what can you do, Benny, dressmaker’s son?
- Be a dummy…

Mobsters took Klaus and Benny to the cellar, made them sit on stone floor, chained them to pipes with handcuffs and went away. Practically in an hour they tortured pulled out from home and stop-thought Benny’s step-father at Benny’s and Klaus’ eyes. They put him in front of toilet basin, cut with huge garden shears his fingers from the palm one by one and drew down to the basin. Unstuck duct-tape from his mouth and demanded to say where the packet was. That one was screaming, crying, shaking his head, peed, and they again stuck his mouth and cut the next finger. And did it to both hands. Klaus said to Benny:
- These are your documents, Ben, not his fingers, but your papers are being drown down, torn into pieces and drown down. Benny, isn’t it your third wish in life – to see tortures of your torturer?
After this everybody hurried somewhere, grabbed Klaus and carried him away, chained step-father with no fingers on both hands to pipes, and left having turned off the light. There were no windows in this cellar. Step-father was lying in corner and bleeding. Benny…

When policemen opened doors, they found two male corpses gnawed by rats. One was Willy’s, he died from loss of blood as it was set by medical experts. The second corpse belonged to a young man, he died perhaps from hunger and  thirst, but more true he had caught cold on stone floor and died from influenza, as Benny had AIDS, which means zero immunity…

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2009