Which town?

trajectories, but who were not inhibited by this past preachy misuse of the “sacred”.

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As the moment of decision drew near, the specter of an inert and corrupt bureaucracy serving a heartless machinery, the conditional assistance of which would be subject to reductive interests, begun to loom darkly in the collective atmosphere. What would become of all these small daily efforts, insignificant in themselves but free and freely given, to compose little by little a living harmony turned towards a State one just had to learn and discover?

We were accountable to no one but Her – and our unity.

What would now be demanded of us?

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