The way the soldier looked at her almost undid the careful temporal training she had received at Oxford. The training there had focused on thinking. There was no courses about protecting your heart. All this emotion in her and he had not yet even told her his name.
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After the fighting ended, emancipation didn’t feel like a victory; it felt like walking out of a burning plantation with only the clothes on your back. However, freedom and the opportunities it offered made the journey worthwhile.
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There was ample silence in the house, the kind that made a thousand small thoughts rise and fall without sound.
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Agnes tried not to clench her hands when the siren wailed; she wanted to look calm for the others whether in the town, the hospital or her flat.
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The troubadour could tell the story a hundred ways, and still people would assume the ending was inevitable, though nothing in their lives had ever been.
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Samantha’s latest iteration was a trad wife, a version of herself her friends in college would never have believed.
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I thought it was more during the war. The Nazis were pretty well crushed in 1945.