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Why People Write in Wartime

In the middle of an active war, with sirens going off and the power out, people sit down and write. Nearly 1,500 Ukrainians did it during the invasion. Hundreds of Britons did it as the bombs fell in 1939. Why do we reach for a pen exactly when the world is hardest to hold? The answer turns out to be stranger than "it helps" - and it begins with a clockwork pattern nobody chooses.

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