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Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War Quotes: War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.
         

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.


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War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.
         



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Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.

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They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.





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