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Volume 65, Number 46 • November 12, 2020
Local author’s newest offering details story of love amidst war By Roslyn Ryan Editor
Keeping the faith A rally held in Centerville on Sunday brought hundreds out in support of President Donald Trump, despite the fact that challenger Joe Biden had the day before secured enough electoral votes to win the Nov. 3 election. Billy Clark, right, who attended with his wife Lori, left, and their friend Carol Duvekot, said he simply wants to know that the election was carried out fairly and that potential voter fraud is thoroughly investigated. To see how candidates fared in Goochland, see page 12.
As an award-winning writer, Robin Traywick Williams knew that the story needed to be told: A dashing young military officer and his beautiful bride-to-be, their tumultuous love story and early adventures unfolding against the backdrop of the Second World War. Williams, as it happened, also knew in her heart that she should be the one to put the story down on WILLIAMS paper — after all, the young couple in question was her mother and father. Now, after years of painstaking research and multiple drafts, Williams has released, “The Last Romantic War,” a book that traces her parents’ early lives and courtship, which was shaped in no small way by
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