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Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 The Proving
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After three years' separation during the war, a husband and wife meet to find both changed by the experience.

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    y separately published work icon The Weekly Times no. 2575 14 December 1918 7795554 1918 newspaper issue 1918 pg. 51
    Note:

    Epigraph

    It is her joy indeed to be so frail.

    That he must shield her–he of all the world

    Whom most she loves; and then if he be hurled

    To depths of sorrow, she will more avail

    Than half a Senate.

    –Eric Mackay.

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