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In response to
"I'm not sure. Hemingway was born in 1899, and by 1918 he was an ambulance driver in the US Army. But maybe "came of age" is a better description than "
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Roger More
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that's been my understanding, but I now see that may be because I grew up in the u.s. it looks like it's different in other places. (link)
Posted by
b. (aka starrynit)
Jun 10 '15, 16:26
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I was thinking of Hemingway, too (I'd guess a lot of us make that connection!), with his service being at the tail end of the war, and "the sun also rises" which uses that term, set after the war.
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