A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.

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This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand---how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.

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I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

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She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back. But of course we had. She'd taken me back.

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And don’t look for anything out of the law around here,” she said. “The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the sheriff. No justice in these parts. It’s every man for hisself.”

“But as the saying goes, if you can’t get justice,” Mrs. Dowdel remarked, “get even.

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