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    The war had been over, he had come home safe. But then the dragons began to dance once more, and he was gone, and she was alone. Almost.

    Title from "How Could I Ever Know?" from the musical The Secret Garden, by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman.
    This story quotes and paraphrases the last letter of Major Sullivan Ballou, a famous missive from the U.S. Civil War.

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