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I was sitting at the reception desk, shivering in my thin wool dress and wishing my employer could afford coal delivery, when the phone rang. It was my Aunt Elyse. “I found it!†she said.
I tried to remember if she had lost anything. But other than her life’s savings, which we had all lost in [...]
The ward was silent but for the spinning of fans overhead and the breathing of men sleeping. Outside, a few crickets chirped, lapsing into silence when the occasional soldier passed on his way to some late-night assignment. Donovan lay on his thin mattress, trying to match his breathing to the rhythm of the sleeping soldiers [...]
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