Vera Brittain quote: I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful ...

I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me through their dark and devious ways to this new beginning.

~ Vera Brittain ~

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