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<span style=’FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: “Times New Roman”,”serif”; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA’>
<div style=”MARGIN: 0cm” align=”left”><span style=’FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: “Times New Roman”,”serif”; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA’><span style=”COLOR: black”>
<div style=”MARGIN: 0cm” align=”left”><span style=’FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: “Times New Roman”,”serif”; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA’>Based on the full text of ninety-two letters written more than seventy-five years ago and only discovered in 2019, <em>Dear Billie: A World War II Love Story</em> tells the true story of a long-distance romance that began during the war and lasted a lifetime. Written by Roland “Vern” Ploughman, from Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, to his girl, Lillian “Billie” Wenman, from Toronto, Ontario, these letters follow a tank gunner’s experience of training, combat, wounding, and return home. Spanning from January 1943 to August 1945, they begin with eighteen-year-old Vern writing to seventeen-year-old Billie, who a friend insists he must meet.</span></div></span></span></div></span>