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\title{ Along the Creed River (you can't see it), Stornaway }

\author{ Sam Wilson }

\date{ 1942 April 1 (Wednesday), 12:00AM }

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Murray's friends, Stornaway, Scotland ("Along the Creed River - you can't see it - Stornaway. The going was tough"). Probably April 1942.

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