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I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.