"Beautiful Joe"
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Mira is a young teen living with her widowed Mom and her two brothers. They're getting by when suddenly, her older brother, Joseph is drafted to go to war, something not uncommon in the 1940s during World War II. This short story focuses around five diary entries that Mira writes, illuminating the lifestyle of an average family during World War II and the raw emotion of a teen.
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