5. How does paragraph 6 contribute to development of ideas in the interview with Lotte Magnus?
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This is the paragraph for 6: Well, the next thing I knew was that somebody was pouring water on my face, and I was looking up at all these sergeants that were standing around me. Was the first time in my life that I ever fainted. And of course they all wanted to know what the telegram said, why did you faint, et cetera, et cetera. And I told them. And everybody was delighted to realize, along with me, that mother had survived. And this was shortly before lunch. And by the time I walked into the officer's mess for lunch, everybody in the dining room stood up, word had gotten around. And they all knew. I tell you, I don't think I was ever that touched before or since. And, of course, that evening we had to have a reason for a party, so what better reason. So... but that's how I found out that my mother was still alive. And she was really skinny. I got a snapshot of her fairly soon after that, and — but she made up for it, even before she came to the states the following year. So like my husband always said, "your mother had guts." And that's true. She lived through the first world war, with a — as a young bride with a small child, and a husband in the service. And she had an invalid husband for 16 years. And then those years in the concentration camp. And it was in '46 when she came, and she didn't die until 1973 and is buried here in Portland. So that's the story of my mother. And it's connected with the service also because I was in the service, and as soon as she came to the states, I was able to draw dependency pay for her, and that helped my brother a great deal, because he was struggling. He was a 4F because of poor eyesight and varicose veins in his legs, and felt bad about it, but they had a small child by that time, so not everybody could enlist in the service. I did it because I was just so grateful that I could come to this country. And I'll forever be grateful, no matter what goes on, though I wish at times now things would be going on a little differently, but that's another ball of wax. We won't go into that.