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4th August 1918
"It is four years tonight since the dance at the lighthouse -- four years of war. It seems like three times four. I was fifteen then. I am nineteen now. I expected that these past four years would be the most delightful years of my life and they have been years of war -- years of fear and grief and worry -- but I humbly hope, of a little growth in strength and character as well.