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With her husband often absent, she was nurse, midwife and surrogate missionary in the community and coped with running the mission station and schools and attending to her growing family. These letters were Marianne's only contact with the outside world and with her family back in England, the mail service was so irregular that it often took 18 months to get a reply. 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