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Excerpt from The Archive, Vol. 83: A Literary Periodical Published by the Students of Duke University Durham, North Carolina; Autumn, 1970
Now her need to love did not have to be feared, would not turn her into a hovering smile, make her strong beauty tremulous, and leave her with empty hands before the rushing freedom of her own later children. Ever since the soldier had ended the night drunk and lost, his head held close to her chest, she had become, Oh Jesus! What a beautiful woman. And growing still within her arms, he had let her be the calmest of answers to despair, made her into an entire world which held solace and peace for the saddest of wild-eyed boys. She thought that perhaps she would grow up happy, needed, and strong: 0 hold on to me, I will take care of you.
She leaned against the bar and talked to the haggard black-haired man behind it, wondered where all her other summers had slipped to, and he told her about his children, while clanking ice into glasses, plopping golden liquor on top. It made her lonely to hear him talk, as he sweated in the crowded room, and slipped his sentences between noisy orders.
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