On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
You were strangers to the distressing scene of a family in flight, and to the thousand restless cares and tender sorrows that incessantly arose.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “You were strangers to the distressing scene of a family in flight, and to the thousand restless cares and tender sorrows…”
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Paine describes the profound emotional and physical hardships of wartime displacement and anxiety, experiences unknown to the English public.
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