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EEEP! A real page-turner....

"The light from the front porch bounced off his golden hair and his knowing, blue eyes sparkled. Keira froze in disbelief at the sight. He didn't look like Coco Bear, nor did he look like her clumsy best friend."

"He was one of those guys I think of as a GRAH––Generally Regarded as Hot––not that I was interested in him that way. But here he was, a senior and a start shooter, draping himself all over my register and hitting on me. In front of his friends."

"Music drifted into my dreams. Hauntingly sweet music filled the hole torn in my heart. I smiled, reaching for the source of the sound but I found nothing. It was only a beautiful dream."

"It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

"We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers––we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals."

Dank just showed up!

"Tranny had enough difficulty nailing down the right word as it was. Sometimes he had a weird way of saying the opposite of what he meant to say, like there was a screw loose in his brain."

"We didn't talk about the dreams; instead, we would discuss other things, like our hopes and dreams."

"One night Lynch, unable to sleep, went into his study, which was cluttered with maps and relics from his previous expeditions. Amid his papers on Fawcett, he came across the colonel's warning to his son: "If with all my experience we can't make it, there's not much hope for others."

Amazed at the amount of work and talent that's gone into the telling of this story. Inspires me to keep working hard on mine.