"Last night Mel and I were talking about some of the adjustments we'll have to make to our husbands' return. I must admit I'm not exactly the same girl you left--I'm twice as independent as I used to be and to top it off, I sometimes think I've become 'hard as nails'....Also--more and more I've been living exactly as I want to...I do as I damn please." These tough words from the wife of a soldier show that World War II changed much more than international politics. In Since You Went Away , the letters of hundreds of ...
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"Last night Mel and I were talking about some of the adjustments we'll have to make to our husbands' return. I must admit I'm not exactly the same girl you left--I'm twice as independent as I used to be and to top it off, I sometimes think I've become 'hard as nails'....Also--more and more I've been living exactly as I want to...I do as I damn please." These tough words from the wife of a soldier show that World War II changed much more than international politics. In Since You Went Away , the letters of hundreds of women of all backgrounds, ages, and regions reveal how the war revolutionized the lives of those left at home. Drawn from a vast archive of wartime correspondence, these letters are sometimes touching, sometimes anguished, and always packed with intimate glimpses of the World War II era.
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