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Posted by Przemcio (Member # 6133) on :

Why "Polish" boy ? Not Germany or some one nation else. hmm???

Polish Fan

Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :

To make him Catholic, and from a country with a long history of surviving oppression, so that he had been brought up to take the long view.

Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :

And because he's from Poland. [Wink]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Why *not* Poland? Is it that you want him to come from a different country, or you want the fate of Poland to be the fate of a different country?