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This post is somewhat related to a an ongoing series.

Today is the 7th anniversary of my marriage to this handsome, supportive, bike-riding, brewing Husband.

On a far more sober note, some reading I did several months ago yielded these surprising coincidences. Also on April 19, in 1937:

• Picasso began to conceive & sketch his theme for a commissioned mural that would become Guernica;
• Canadian Norman Bethune resigned from the revolutionary blood transfusion organization he had founded & shaped in republican Spain; and
• sent by the Nazis, twelve newly designed Messerschmitt Bf 109s arrived in northern Spain to support Franco’s forces.

These are momentous events that shaped the Spanish Civil War and its place in history, and I was struck that a day so meaningful in my life would have such larger implications. I just wanted to share.

…Thanks to Hell and Good Company, a fine book by Richard Rhodes, for these timely details.

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