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Ruth Domino

Fiction

Spring 1948

The Shared Bed

By Ruth Domino

There was nothing romantic about Paris when I first saw it in 1938. It was on an early March morning, chilly and gray, and I felt as tired and hungry […]

Fiction

Summer 1949

It Almost Happened

By Ruth Domino

Although we rose at seven our day really began at eight, when the farm bell outside the main house rang loudly in its square gallowslike frame. A few moments later […]