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Blank pages, an erased presence. And, to his misfortune, Sajó I felt like asking: Dear All, who will believe you, let’s say after
didn’t build anything in Budapest. People studied and are still the year 2000, that there indeed was life in Debrecen before
studying in his school as a course of life, swore allegiance as little the period of standardised blocks, before the Kádár-era with its
drummers and pioneers in his stadium and then cheered there makeshift, emergency solutions?
for the athletes, changed trains at his railway stations, are living
in his apartment blocks, waited for examinations in his clinic and Then I thought this: we must show that there indeed was.
spoiled his villas to the point of ruin with their dilettante annexes
in the Big Forest, the Chelsea of Debreceners; yet, they know I wish with all my heart that everybody’s adolescent dream comes
nothing, or virtually nothing, about him. true as mine has.
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