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The agency, he said, has been using the “unconstitutional presumption” for “fifty-five years too many.”

At the age of fifty-five, the war had taken a toll on his health.

I counted the beats, a total of fifty-five, for thirty seconds.

“But I also realized, about eleven minutes, fifty-five seconds ago, that I am beyond dense.”

For fifty-five years he did not know his parents’ fate for certain, and despite searching, he could not find any survivors from Trawniki, the forced-labor camp where his parents had been sent.