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I enjoyed listening to your wonderful poems. They echo some of the feelings I had while my husband was away in Iraq. I grew up on a military base with others who shared my experience when my father was away. I am now a wife of a reservist and live in the community without that shared common experience. My experience of my husbands absence, the daily felling of anxiety, I haven’t thought about for some time. Thank you, I am happy to remember it, now that my husband is home and safe.

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