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In the short story \"On the train\" a mother and her two little girls leave their home, one doesn\'t know exactly why. At first the mother can\'t really decide in which direction to go, but once decided, she hurries down the street without thinking about her little children who can hardly follow her. They reach a train-station and the mother buys three tickets, still not noticing her girls. The passengers look at the small family noticing the children don\'t wear warm enough clothes and want the mother to notice their disapproval about the way she treats her kids.
They get on a train, the mother not helping her small daughter getting up the stairs. When trying to find a seat the mother chooses a single one and lets the two girls sit together on the other side. A female passenger who sits opposite of the two girls takes a closer look at their mother, noticing the she is a very beautiful woman compared to the girls and tries to find out more about them through trying to talk to the children.
Finally the mother and her kids are getting off the train, and while passing the woman the mother bends down telling her that she was going to kill her children.
This particular story could happen in every country. You never get to know anything about the reasons why the woman is leaving her home or why she wants to kill her children. She could be mentally ill, or she just couldn\'t cope with being left by her husband, it could be anything.
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