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in 1940 as a letter from a naval officer who had supposedly received it from an enlisted man explaining his late return from leave. Hoffnung first saw the story in
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Bennett; they had two children, Ben (Benedict) and Emily who became, respectively, a timpanist and a sculptor. Hoffnung's uncle was
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