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What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
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And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.
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Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.
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Stories are for joining the past to the future.
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Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
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And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.
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Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's most valuable.
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Nostalgia-- that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it.
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But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
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