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The Ringer-Verse
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The Red Poppy Remembrance Ceremony
Joan is already a widow, but she's also someone who sent the person she loves John Smith off to war. She knows that she has to send him, right? Because she's like, they'll just keep coming. And when he comes back, and she says, John Smith is dead and you look like him,. And he said, but he's here inside. That's all of the Docker doctor had never visited us. If he'd never chosen this place on a whim, would anybody here have died? The pain and the cost of that, the way that this ends with the red poppy remembrance sort of ceremony, this very like British meditation on war.
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