Past Continuous
Yaakov Shabtai
1977
Goldman plodded through the sand and passed the place where the big shack, which had disappeared without a trace, had once stood, skirted the wild mulberry tree and arrived at the place which had once been the garden in front of Shmuel and Bracha and Grandfather Baruch Chaim and Grandmother Hava’s shack, which had been demolished like most of the…
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