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"Hundreds of babies are fed and washed and wrapped in warm, new baby flannels and placed back again into grateful mothers' arms. All day and all night they come, one constant stream from evacuated towns, with tales too pitiful to listen to, and yet always with courtesy and graciousness that almost shames."

— A. Evelyn Newman

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Newman worked at a YMCA canteen in France during World War I, serving both refugees and military personnel.

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