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Saoirse is set apart from the beginning - marked with a psychic gift which serves as her greatest ally and strength against coming judgement and condemnation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lil and Joe Corcoran adopt her, she is four months old with and ancient soul. There is the hope of happy ever after. At first, their love is unconditional, but then the deeper aspect of her nature triggers their great fear. They reject her abilities, forcing her back into another convent, run by St. Agnes, who sees and treats Saoirse as evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaoirse holds onto the truth that love is the only property to heal an emotionally enslaved, repressed Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer friendships give her hope. Her family become her greatest teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe search for her identity centres on her first shared sorrow, separated only by walls, a mother and her child who felt each other's presence. 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A pacifist at heart, Field had just finished his freshman year at Albion College where he was studying to be a Methodist missionary. Although he found the idea of killing another human to be at odds with his Christian beliefs, like other Americans he was convinced of the righteousness of World War I - the war to end all wars - and he was determined to do his part.In recounting Field's story,  Hilary Connor relied on four principal sources of information found in a footlocker issued to Field as a member of the 168th Ambulance Company in the 42nd Division-or as it was more famously known, the Rainbow Division. The first of these sources is a handwritten diary kept by Byron from February 1918 to July 1919. The second cache of firsthand information is contained in two books that were co-authored by Field and other select Company members in the late winter and early spring of 1919, recounting events and personal experiences of the war-The History of Ambulance Company 168 and Iodine and Gasoline. The third and perhaps most extraordinary source is a collection of over three hundred letters written by Field during the war to his parents and college girlfriend.  Included in many of the letters are mementos ranging from the petals of regional flowers in bloom to Red Cross notices to church service programs and other pieces of everyday life that proved invaluable in helping to create a broader and richer historical context. The last category of material is a voluminous collection of personal papers, including academic articles, speech notes, and opinion pieces, written by Field in the decades following the war. 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