Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried

Mar 27, 2012 · With its quilted liner, the poncho weighed almost 2 pounds, but it was worth every ounce. ... They found jokes to tell. They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. ... of humor, too. Like the time at this river when he went fishing with a whole damn crate of hand grenades. Probably the funniest thing in world history, Rat says ... ................
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