Breakthrough
Suspense · January 7, 1962 · 26 min · 3,112 words
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And now, a tale well calculated to keep you in... ...of spent. Listen now to Breakthrough, starring Adelaide Klein and Philip Sterling, and written a specially for suspense by William N. Robeson. Mother?
Hurry up, we don't have all day. Oh, really? I don't know if I should leave. Mother, you have to. Oh, it is not easy. Of course it is. Oh, would you know really? You are young. You had your whole life ahead of you.
But my life has been lived here in this flat. Your father brought me here as a bride. And there, and I'm dead to my husband, my children. And here, I brought them up to be men.
Dead men. Your brothers died for their country. For country? For which father landed, they spilled their blood. their blood. To try to confuse me with politics, my son. Your brothers died, yes, but they died on rubri.
You know, this is it, maybe. On rubri. And now you are all I have left, my son. You and the memories which lived with me in these rooms. You no longer have me, mother, unless you come with me now.
Who really? You must make your decision. I've already made mine. Marta is over there waiting for me, and the baby, they're safe. They come first, don't they? Of course they do. And they should go to them.
That's where you belong with them. Now, Mother, you go on, be with them. I will stay here with the memories of men who cared for the old day. Now, Mother, listen to me. Just be quiet and listen.
I came back for you, didn't I? I came back last night to get you, didn't I? Yes, you did. And you begged me to let you spend one last night here with your memories, and I did, didn't I?
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