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Clearly it is simplest never to marry at all,’ I said, trying to keep my voice light. These stories, ridiculous fairy tales though they were, had tainted the evening. Like Vivian, I preferred to think of The Sleeping Princess as a magical spectacle of fairy godmothers and characters from folklore. But then we had both learned the hard way about heartbreak and loss.
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― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
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I had written of Germans as men not super men and this was considered a very weak attitude to take. I couldn't make much sense out of this, and it seems absurd now that we know the Germans were men, and this fallible, even defeatable. It was said that I didn't know anything about the war, and this was perfectly true, though how Park Avenue commandos found me out I can't conceive.
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