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I do not know his name, but he`s always walking around in our neighborhood. One day, I was sitting outside our building, watching Kaja riding her bike, he came over to me. He looked at my camera (while I snapped away), and looked at Kaja and her bike. Then he told me this story:

When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, he and his friend decided to escape to Sweden. They used their bikecycles, and went out in the middle of the night. Today we can reach the border in about an hour if we use a car. I guess they may have used 6-8 hours on a bike on dirt roads in 1940. When they figured they were near the border, they hid their bikes behind an old shed, and ran into the woods. The next day, they were safe in Sweden, and they stayed there till April 1945 when the Germans left. They bought a train ticket to Moss, and walked from the station and home to their house. Everything looked like it did when they left. Except next to the stairs were their bikes. And to this day, he doesn`t know how they got there.

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