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One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if...more

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If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

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I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my...more

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Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit could eat a cabbage down to the roots, and from the...more

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I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, ...more

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I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, ...more

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It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.