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Survival #5

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His mother died a year before, but news didn't reach Changi. He discovered at Suez, returning home, from a difficult letter from England. Older and from a different age, the written word was his father’s preferred medium of expression.

In time though, adjusting to post-war Britain, he got on with life, searching for someone to love him. To restore his former self.

He found someone, fell in love, married, but very soon discovered she didn't love him enough. She loved him enough to bear him two children, but then enough was enough.

From then on, the loveless endurance test....

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