“and we could be just like any other couple, stumbling home from any other party. But when you talk about wartime, what you tell me is how many stars there were, and how some boys flew a kite on the mountain. What you don't talk about is huddling with a group of soldiers in a bunker while the rockets came over the walls, how most of you by chance came out, but two did not. They were Canadian, you said offhandedly, when you'd been home for a while, and you never said it again.”
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