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Ready for War in Sweden
“Never say that Swedes have no religion,” I wrote in 1996 after spending the previous summer in an apartment overlooking the crystalline Stockholm archipelago. “That is a myth.” What they have is sommar: that sweet, intense, yet poignantly short season …