The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska
In “The End and the Beginning,” Wislawa Szymborska describes how the end of a war is the beginning of another equally serious war of reconstruction.
In “The End and the Beginning,” Wislawa Szymborska describes how the end of a war is the beginning of another equally serious war of reconstruction.
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