Personal Narrative: Life In War

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It has been a long time since you and your family moved away to the devilish Union. I miss you dearly and hope you are doing well in your new world. Things are still getting hectic here and it’s almost been a year into the war. My life has never been the same since the countless battles on our soil and the danger it has put us in. We both know that the Union is trying to suffocate our freedoms as an independent nation as the Confederacy. I feel so awful that you have to hide your feelings about this to your family, but just know when we win the war you will be able to come back and we can visit each other again. This is just the beginning of a very different life ahead of us. Life at home has changed for the worst. A few months into the war,

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