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War & Rations

November 20, 1943, Sunday evening, 7:30

I had noticed that tools were getting scarcer that week and that ration points were somehow getting harder to keep in one's ration book, although the newspapers and the radio said that the Allies were getting the upper hand of the war daily. For example, my wife [Ruth] had been forced to forego getting a can of soup for Belzebub, our Maltese cat, because she found our points getting thinner in certain spots. And that week Edward Ernest Cherrie, the school teacher came and said he had to leave for the army. Then that Sunday, the university professor [Bernard Robinson] came to his home with the same news--leaving for the army. 

The Man [Christian} had watched them as they went away. The school teacher first then the professor and his wife [Audrey or Ruth] the next day. What would happen, what winds would blow  up before they came back again? What blind fate would intervene through all of the long days to come?

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