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The Periods of Being

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Time 8h 33m

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Olive Garthen is walking on the path of self-ruination. While her husband is away fighting for their beloved country, England, during World War I, she is in bed. With her sister's husband, Andrew. Guilt eats away at her, shrinking her into the shell of herself. She stays silent from her family back at Blythestone, cutting all ties and leaving her sister, Freya's, letters unanswered, in an attempt to forget about him and their night together. 

	When a telegram replaces Mark, she knows that God was watching over her during her moment of weakness. Traveling back to her childhood home, Blythestone Manor, Olive walks through the heart of a war of her own and the only way to survive is to battle the shadows in her family. A journey of loss, forgiveness, and finding life after death, Olive suffocates with the idea that she is never alone. No one ever is.All Rights Reserved

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The Nurse by CamoJane

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Against All Odds! by QuiliviaTheTreasure

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The Nurse

With war raging all around, some battles can't be won... ♠ The year was 1916, Elosie Keller was dwelling in a secluded Belgian cottage where she remained hidden away from the world until the day he fell from the sky... Drawn to the carnage of a fallen plane, she finds more than rubble when she notices that the pilot is still alive. She knows without medical treatment that the man is fated to die. Acting in a haste, she pulls the man from his destined coffin in hopes to help him live. Eloise soon finds herself tending a German patient in her hidden home and realizes he isn't the monster the world made him out to be; instead, she begins to see much more than an officer, but a man with a heart just trying to survive a war. When she is finally discovered by the Germans, she is called upon to become a field nurse for the men on the western front--only to fall into a whirlwind of unfortunate events that she must learn how to survive. Follow Eloise as she takes on the battle of being a wartime nurse in a man's world, fighting the one enemy that could never be conquered-love... *This is a work of fiction. Any names, dates, or events are completely coincidental. Thanks for reading. (unedited)