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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    07 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    Gene knows that Babe would share a meal with a fellow soldier in a heartbeat. But that Gene should be the one he's sharing it with? That someone would look at Gene and think to offer him something, think to give him food or warmth or affection when he's done nothing but exist nearby? It's difficult to wrap his head around.

    It's when he's trying that the gunshot splits the air.

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    Or, Gene gets hit, and it falls on Babe to patch him up.

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    04 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    Gene is forgetting things. Time isn’t moving right. It scatters, loops backwards and sideways, trips him up when he could have sworn the path was clear. It pulls at his edges; it wavers and breaks. He’s never quite sure when he’s dreaming.

    Something happened.

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    04 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    Joe lets his eyes rake over Webster's face, whose eyes are distant and features striking in lamplit profile. His hair is a little overgrown, his hands large and scuffed where they bring the bottle up to his lips, his jaw sharp where it connects with—

    "Holy shit," Joe mutters, leaning in before his half-drunk brain can warn him that this might not be a good idea. "Are your fuckin' ears pierced, Web?"

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    Or, what do you get when you combine German liquor, the giddy final days of war, and a couple of soldiers who have had just about enough of dancing around each other? If you're Joe Liebgott, the answer is an amateur piercing done by a Harvard dropout, of course.

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    04 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    The letter is almost unreadable, by the time Babe turns off of the interstate and into Baton Rouge. He ghosts a featherlight fingertip over the writing even now, long after the lead has been wiped away. He still remembers the word that had been there, feels it against his skin like he's a blind man reading braille. Cancer, it reads. Somewhere further down, another groove will spell out, low on time, first, then, nothing they can do. It's so cliche it makes Babe want to throw up.

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    Or, the one in which Gene and Babe survive the war, go back to their homes, and try to lead their own separate lives--until Gene gets sick, Babe gets a letter, and it all comes crashing down.

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    03 Oct 2025