Greetings from Central Virginia. First off, I'd like to thank everyone who's donated to the cause of me getting my life back on track.

Seriously, your help and kind words will mean more to me than you will ever know.

Since some of you are still making donations, I thought I'd wait until the next episode to thank you all.

But don't worry, I'll think of something. Maybe I'll read the episodes with the appropriate accent or learn to correctly pronounce the un-American cities and personalities.

I'll get back to you on that. But thank you.

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This time, I would like to recommend the book, 22 Britannia Road, by Amanda Hutchinson.

It's got a lot of good reviews on there. I haven't finished listening to it yet, but I've gotten through the first chapter and I really like it.

It's the story of a woman who's basically hidden in the forest of Poland with her son for the entire World War II.

And now the war is over. She's going to Britain to meet up with her husband who she hasn't seen in years.

And he wants to forget that he's Polish. He wants to forget all about the war.

And they have to somehow make their lives work again, even though they haven't seen each other for years.

They've had totally different experiences, and they're not even sure who the other person is anymore.

So it's really neat, and I'll just read you a part of the summary that's unannable.

Housekeeper or housewife, the soldier asked Savanya, as she and her eight-year-old son bore the ship that will take them from Poland to England at the end of World War II.

There her husband, Janus, is already waiting for them in a little house at 22 per ten-year road.

But the war has changed them so utterly, they'll barely recognize one another when they're reunited.

Survivor, she answers the question.

Savanya and Auric spent the war hiding in the forest of Poland, wild, almost fernel, Auric doesn't know how to tie his own shoes or sleep in a bed.

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