Feeding the girls with plentiful supplies of formula on hand, plenty of food to supply us with our daily needs. Easy access to stores stocked with baby care items like bottles, nipples, blankets, disposable diapers.
"A baby could only cry about its hunger, but mothers like me had to gry to do something abou tit. It's really hard to bear your child's sobs, when you have nothing to give him." Chieko Hashimoto, Japanese civilian recalling life during the War, when civilians starved on a diet of 1,680 calories a day. Quoted in "Retribution," by Max Hastings.
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