3.1 If war brought Olivia and Ben together, would peace then pull them apart? For the young, seven years might seem an eternity, but for those who live seven years, it is finally only a beginning, and the promises of seven years stretch out into multiples of seven until youth crumbles into age, grasping for a reevaluation that desires once again a blank slate, the sloughing of cares piled one upon the other, the emptiness of freedom.