“Maybe that’s not so natural. She looked like she’d just stepped down from a billboard. There were no direct flights to Serraro, the mountainous desert where my platoon had been sent to deal with a situation now buried in secrecy, perhaps shame. So I went back to university instead, pre-med and then psychology and philosophy.
”“Hey, it wasn’t my fault. When she got home that evening she found herself looking at her grandmother, studying her almost, and wondering who exactly she was. But it was already more people than he could ever hope to know or even recognise. Paul with my mother,” I replied.
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