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They could not understand why Anna wanted to give  herself  so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to  support  "Well," Anna  explained to  her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I  later  lived found herself very poor, because her husband  had been killed  in the war and she had a lot of children,  [MASK]  I have now.