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Little Boy

noun

  1. the code name for the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.


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But when he spoke to me about how the heart of this film was going to be the relationship between a little boy and his mother, and that that is the love story, that was just music to my ears.

“That little boy never would have imagined he would be in this position,” declared Jenkins, shaking his head.

In one scene a little boy sits near an IRA soldier watching British officers quietly roll up in vehicles and doesn’t flinch as the man runs off and bullets whiz by his head.

From Salon

It has raised almost £4,000 – where donors have described him as the "bravest little boy".

From BBC

Rizeq’s mother is overcome as he walks forward without any help to embrace her and his wife praises God as he stands holding their little boy.

From BBC

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