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Settling In
Suspended In Time, Part 3

It was the end of September, 1943
I had just completed my first overseas flight
That, an adventure in itself
And now here I was in London with my company
We were stationed at the Supreme Headquarters
And we'd be working as part of the Allied Expeditionary Force
Great plans were underway
And even though I was just a typist
I took great pride in being a part of it
I wrote home to my family regularly
Telling them everything that wasa happening to me, to us
How we were actually making history everyday
How we were living it
Telling them about London
None of them had ever even been out of our home town
But they weren't interested in anything I had to say
They all wrote back the same thing
"War's no place for a decent woman. Come home."
As if I could, as if I would
For the first time in my life I felt alive
Really alive, and part of something
That wild place inside of me was finally getting fed
And its appetite was voracious

The Beginning
Suspended In Time, Part 2

The year was 1943, and emotions ran high
Every able bodied American was signing up
Only too eager to defend our country
Men and women alike, ready to do our duty
I was no different and I signed up as a WAC
People were just getting used to the idea of women in the military
There were still a lot of them completely against it
Including my family
But I was 23, with a mind of my own
And a yearning for adventure
If only I'd known then how everything would turn out
Would my actions have been different
Would I have stayed home and escaped all the pain
On no, for I would have missed all the joy
And the love
And so this is the beginning of my story
Bittersweet, poignant, and oh so dear to my heart

Suspended In Time

She lives in the past, in her own little world
Untouched by concerns of the present
Her skin is wrinkled, her hair is gray
But that's not the reflection she sees in the mirror
She sees a woman, still young and beautiful
Unchanged by the passage of time
Suspended forever in a long lost era
She dances to music that only she hears
And with a partner that only she sees
None know what happened to freeze her in time
And she's not likely ever to tell
So she lives her days lost in her fantasies
Content in a way few of us ever are
Forever held in the arms of her love
As they dance the time away