It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.
Brian Francis
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We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.
Brian Francis
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Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.
Brian Francis
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The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.
Brian Francis
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The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.