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She was now nearly sixteen, poorly educated and aware of the fact that, by Western standards, she was quite ignorant. So she threw herself into her dancing, and before long she had saved enough money to buy a train ticket from Minsk (for that was the area she was in) to Warsaw. 'If I can just get to Warsaw,' she thought, 'the Red Cross is bound to send me the rest of the way.'
No sooner said than done. One morning, when she was supposedly going to her lesson, she tied her accumulated possessions into a bundle and slipped away. As she had expected, the walk from the Kantavoskas' farm to Minsk was far from easy. She got a ride in a wagon for a few hours, but that still left several hours on foot.