Frog Fathers: Lessons from the Normandy Surf
Frog Fathers: Lessons from the Normandy Surf is, in a sense, a ghost story, though perhaps not in the way we traditionally think of ghost stories There are no hauntings or apparitions. No seances, conjurings or things that go bump in the night. Yet the dead are very much at the heart of this story. And they are with us for every part of its telling.
Frog Fathers: Lessons from the Normandy Surf is, in a sense, a ghost story, though perhaps not in the way we traditionally think of ghost stories There are no hauntings or apparitions. No seances, conjurings or things that go bump in the night. Yet the dead are very much at the heart of this story. And they are with us for every part of its telling.
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