This short story is about an old man and a little boy after World War 2. The old man has lived and raised the boy in 6 years, since he got him as a baby. The boy has no information and doesn’t know when his birthday is. So the old man and the boy agree that tomorrow will be his birthday from now on. The old man gives him a cart as his birthday gift and to celebrate his day even more, they take a trip to the forest, where the old man loves to be, and the boy has never been before. But the boy seems more interested in the city where the soldiers are. In the woods they go past an old tank and the boy wants to play in it, but the old man says no and they continues to where the old man has desisted they should stop. The old man tells the boy to close his eyes like him and relax. When the old man wakes up again after his nap in the woods, the boy is gone and the old man finds ham at the tank where he is playing a soldier, who shoots the old man.
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