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Takeko Harada (then 14), a third-year student at First Municipal Girls High School, was exposed to the A-bomb at Hiroshima Station, about 1,900m from the hypocenter. She was extensively burned and was carried to the dormitory of Hiroshima Steel Works where she and other students were mobilized to work. Her mother Atsuko ran to her side and nursed her. She appeared to be recovering, but on September 17, her condition suddenly changed. On the 21st, worrying about her younger brother who was then in the fifth grade of elementary school, she said, "Mother, you should be taking care of my little brother. Hurry home to him." |
