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They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.
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The speaker rejects the belief that isolating her husband will make people forget him. She says attempts to silence him will instead strengthen her own voice. The comparison between silence and loudness expresses her determination to keep speaking about him, making suppression ineffective rather than accepting it as final.
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