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“You are beautiful and I will love you forever, she had said to him that day by the lake. Neither of them ever forgot her valiant, youthful promise, but now—the love destroyed, his beauty mocked by the ugly significance of his uniform, she hoped he was dead.”

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Book:The Last Innocent Hour

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