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Sitting with friends at a long table clutteredwith bowls of oatmealand cold stacks of pancakes,he holds his coffee mugwith both hands.And recites the memoryof a cold ditch in Korea,of hot chinese metaland smoldering wool,and the certainty that he would burst into flames. © catnapping
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November 8, 2008