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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    Tom is a commercial fisherman in Nova Scotia, and his life is defined by the change of the seasons, the easy company of his best friend, and the sea salt that coats him like a second skin. He's never had any reason to believe in folk tales, and it would take something huge to change that.

    Pete, for all his diminutive stature, might be that something.

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    27 May 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    In Bastogne, Babe catches some kind of mean, fucked-up Belgian bronchitis.

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    27 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    Babe Heffron tears a hole in his best friend's shirt, knocks out his front tooth, and ruins Eugene Roe’s life.

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    27 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 48

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    So it went, as summer ripened in full and began to give way to fall, or the closest thing the bayou could offer. Eugene’s eyes were faraway in church, farther still whenever a well-meaning friend showed up at the door to ask him how he’d liked Europe, how glad he was to be back. He flinched when a neighbor fired off a shot at a duck or a gator and woke up in harsh, grating sobs that Maud could hear through the wall in the night, that she thought might break her heart in two.

    And then, one day, he stepped through the door at dinner time, and he wasn’t alone.

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    Or, Eugene’s mother tries to reacquaint herself with her son and anything that could help him heal—which might just include Babe Heffron.

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    27 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 68

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    Suddenly, and as clearly as if he read it in the histories in the Benning library, Ron envisions this strong, sad-faced man bleeding into grey French earth, and then gathered up, dead, by the enemy, bound for a mass grave. He wants to seize the sergeant’s hand and drag him away from Herbert Sobel’s company, make him impossible promises, swear on God that although he may die he will never be led foolishly and his life will not go to waste. Ron stands very still. He is a stranger to himself. He can’t remember ever wanting anything so much, except death.

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    09 Apr 2025