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Dear Cecilia. Please don't throwthis away without reading it. As you'll have seen from thenotepaper, I'm here at St. Thomas' doing my nurses' training. I decided not to take upmy place at Cambridge. Oh, God. I decided I wanted to make myself useful.Do something practical. It says in the newspaper the Armyare making strategic withdrawals. Yes, I saw that. It's a euphemism for retreat. No matter how hard I work,no matter how long the hours, I can't escape from what I did and what it meant, the full extent of which I amonly now beginning to grasp
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Dear Cecilia Please don't throw this away without reading it
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As you'll have seen from the notepaper I'm here at St Thomas'
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doing my nurses' training
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I decided not to take up my place at Cambridge
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Oh God
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I decided I wanted to make myself useful Do something practical
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It says in the newspaper the Army are making strategic withdrawals
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Yes I saw that
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It's a euphemism for retreat
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No matter how hard I work no matter how long the hours
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I can't escape from what I did
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and what it meant
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the full extent of which I am only now beginning to grasp
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Movie Summary
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
