Chapter 37

To: Charlotte Jackson [email protected]

From: William Kavanagh [email protected]

Subject: Are You Happy? [unsent draft]

W hy the fuck did you have to be my guardian angel? Why couldn’t you have saved the rest of my unit like you did all the other times?

I shouldn’t have survived. Anyone but me. Those men were ten times better than me. I’m a poor, barely educated jarhead. I never should’ve been the only survivor. What kind of life can I live now?

All I have waiting for me out of this hospital is a lonely, sad existence as a broken man who couldn’t protect his own unit.

This is who you saved. Are you happy?

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