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Book Review of When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer--New York City to the Western Front, 1917 (Dear America)

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This is a beautiful book and story. Simone Spencer sees the beginning of America in World WAR 1 and hopes that her life will not change. But it does her brother joins the army and she joins the women's Signal Corps because she speaks English and French. She meets the love of her life in France and is told that he is dead, just to find him later in a Veterans Hospital in New York.The characters are fiction, but the historical details are true. This is a great book.I could not put it down until I finished it. Simone is full of energy and kindness.