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That summer came a series of rather bad air raids, and Fabio was openly afraid. He would sit in the office under the pavement, praying, with his fingers stuffed in his ears, or begging Teresa to take him to the Tube, where Rosa had gone with the twins. Teresa, however, despised such precautions.
"If we die, we die," was her motto. "The Tube is for mothers with little children, not for old men like you and old women like me. No, I will not let you go to the Tube," she would say. Then Fabio would begin to cry.