i am once again thinking about walter “radar” o’reilly going home to his mother in his class a uniform looking about a decade older, with no teddy bear, yelling at people on the phone. he wakes up earlier than her, now, and sometimes she looks out her window to see him standing alone in the pale blue quiet of dawn in the wide, flat fields of iowa, with his head tilted to the empty sky. listening for something.
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