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The Navy Years : A Memoir
Overview
Did I dream of becoming a Navy wife? No Never I wanted to stay in the safety of my own small town world like all the other post World War II couples I knew. But 'man proposes and God disposes' so, dragging my feet, I encountered a frighteningly unfamiliar world whose terms and conditions were created by the United States Navy. I tip-toed into it reluctantly and only years later when my husband was retiring, did I come to realize how much the way of life had become a part of me, and how much I was going to miss it. The learning process was challenging. I never grew to love the weeks and months of loneliness, but I did learn to cope with it, and grew in the learning.
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- ISBN-13: 9781450278836
- ISBN-10: 1450278833
- Publisher: iUniverse
- Publish Date: January 2011
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.42 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 184
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