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Long Way Down

“IN CASE YOU AIN’T KNOW, gunshots make everybody deaf and blind especially when they make somebody dead.”

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

“During my chocolate parfait I whispered, ‘I’m wearing a bra. Can you tell?’ ‘Of course I can tell,’ Grandma said. ‘You can?’ I was really surprised. I stopped eating. ‘Well, how do you think it makes me look?’ ‘Much older,’ Grandma said, between sips of her coffee. I didn’t know whether to believe her or not so I believed her.”

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Insight

Maren Klement It made sense in their strange kind of way. It was those moments that Alex could understand people who’d told him to be careful when dating a soldier as they could be peculiar people. What is it like to welcome home a soldier who has seen and done things he can’t speak of […]

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