![]() “I’m pretty sure helping out in a war hospital is supporting the war effort, sis.” “I’m not supporting the war,” Perl retorted, adjusting her head covering in the mirror. “Dad would have hit the roof if he knew you were involving yourself in the war effort,” he said. One day in town, Perl caught sight of a woman dressed in a nurse’s uniform crossing the square, and the idea hit her with a jolt of excitement: she would sign up for the Volunteer Aid Detachment.Īaron just rolled his eyes the day Perl came downstairs in her VAD nurse uniform. She had no love for farm work, and Aaron barely spoke to her he had delved headlong into his university studies by day, and spent nights out in town with his beau. In the meantime (when she was not up at dawn doing Ben’s chores), Perl wandered the house from top to bottom in boredom and increasing agitation. Golde was back and forth between home and Sarah’s house, who was barely functional after Jacob left, and the children had been too much of a handful for her to deal with. The house was quiet after that, and it seemed a pall of misery clung to its walls. His heart had given out while he slept, the doctor said. He had never really recovered from the trauma of Esther’s untimely death, and his oldest son going to war had been too much. ![]() The week after Benji and Jacob left for the front, Avram was found in his bed, so peaceful and still he almost looked asleep.
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