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Not the worldly meaning of forgiveness, which expected something in return, but Christian forgiveness, to seventy times seven. Mulcahy had learned it in a hard school, and the 4077th had tested it, sometimes nearly to breaking point.
Forgiving you is easy, he said to Hawkeye once, and got only a puzzled, half-ashamed, half-pleased smile. Forgiving Hawkeye was easy as loving him, easy as being seduced by him. He'd wished Hawkeye was a fellow-priest: a priest would have known what he meant. You know I'll always love you.
Even though he got an immediate transfer, forgetting Hawkeye took the longest time.