Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.

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Even just a few years ago, the words online dating typically conjured up, for most people, an image of a neckbearded guy typing furiously over an IM conversation from his parents' basement.

'Field artillery?' 'No. Toc-emmas.' He was referring to trench-mortars.