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War Games

During the air raids we read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Treasure Island, Around the World in Eighty Days, and ate feasts my mother made with dry goods and powdered milk: rice pudding, "béchamel" spaghetti, in one large aluminum pot over a small gas burner, sandwiches of […]

War Games

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During the air raids we read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Treasure Island, Around the World in Eighty Days, and ate feasts my mother made with dry goods and powdered milk: rice pudding, "béchamel" spaghetti, in one large aluminum pot over a small gas burner, sandwiches of […]

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During the air raids we read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Treasure Island, Around the World in Eighty Days, and ate feasts my mother made with dry goods and powdered milk: rice pudding, "béchamel" spaghetti, in one large aluminum pot over a small gas burner, sandwiches of […]

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