…I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and saw death ahead, and were reprieved – and who now walk the long stormy summer. It is a generation staunch by inheritance, sophisticated by fact – and rather deeply wise. More than that, what I feel about them is summed up in a line of Willa Cather’s: “We possess together the precious, the incommunicable past.

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