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A wartime promise
and soul-forever'
Ebony and Teen People
but whether they want to know the answer
Ranging across the continent
the smoke-filled battle reenactments become blurred and dreamlike
of gentrification
As war ignites Greece
Ankara and Western Anatolia
you'll feel like he's in the kitchen beside you - firing off a few insults when you've scorched the sauce
and just a little upside down
Sophie shows us we can dare to hope