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Such a Lovely Gerrl

April 3, 2022April 2, 2022

She shivered as her husband, William Douglas Armstrong, drove against the blast of the November wind. She’d been shivering in her coat the last forty miles, for the heater in the eight-year-old Plymouth had stopped working the week before. Everyone cut back in wartime anyway, and heat cost gas. Uncle Tim, never without, had mailed … Read more

Categories Fiction Tags coming-of-age, in-laws, love, marriage, motherhood, sexism, WW II

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