1. Chapter 1/#13 by hyperprotagonist

    “I do”

    And with those two words, the rest of his life seemed to be set in a whole new direction.

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  2. Chapter 2/#14 by Si

    Seemed to be, but turned out not to be at all. It was the classic cliché, he stayed the same, but she changed. The first few years were fine, but gradually contentment gave way to resentment, sex became a dim and distant memory and each day was a race to get away, get to the office and freedom from her voice, which had become shrill and strained.

    So it was that his life appeared unable to deviate, constrained down the same path of predictability it had always taken: Good school, good university, good woman, good marriage, each as disappointing as the next.

    With a sigh he realised that he had always had the capacity to change all this, but he simply didn’t have the motivation. As uninspired as his uninspiring life, he couldn’t change as he just didn’t know how.

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  3. Chapter 3/#15 by hyperprotagonist

    However, after five years of mediocrity, in the Summer of his fifth anniversary, change was about to happen without his help or input. It was 1914, and news of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand shook Europe. The World was at war.

    No-one really knew just how life changing the Great War was to be, but every man, woman and child was affected, each fighting their own personal battle, and in this household, it was to be a war of emotions.

    Change, in this family, started with a letter.

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