What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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