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Louisa went to work every day. I woke Gennie up whatever time I came over, cutting summer school, and we spent the next few hours deciding what she would wear, and who we were going to be for the world on that particular day. If we did not have something suitable, we stitched and pinned an assortment of wide skirts and kerchiefs into place. Since G
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Because of the careful censorship of the news, I don’t think any of us, including our parents, realized how real a threat offshore shelling was, for there actually were german submarines in Long Island Sound.