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And the war that my father had talked about, the war that was waiting to happenit was nowhere in sight, but you could hear it rustling around, grumbling in the grass, and you knew it was never far away.
Excerpted from The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb by Nicholas Rinaldi. Copyright © 2014 by Nicholas Rinaldi. Excerpted with permission by Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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