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We can only trust that this war is for the best, and that civilization will be preserved and advanced by it.

When the war began, a six of the workers had been women. The natural order of things - what my mother felt to be the natural order - was turning turtle.

At the very least, we want a witness. We cant stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.