"And here you are yesterday's ensign soldier or captain shell-shocked a hundred times shot through darned and put back together half-mad and dull you write and write and whine from helplessness and melancholy and tears flow down your face and get stuck in your stubble And you understand that you shouldn't have returned from the war."
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