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Clips from The War

"And he looked like you, but only bigger."
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"Come on, Billy. Let's go home."
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"These were Dad's."
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"What are you thinking?"
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"If Dad's watching, he can go now."
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"He is watching."
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"From that day on,"
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"the Lipnickis didn't hang around the quarry no more."
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"We didn't see much of them, except for Billy, who kind of adopted us all."
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"The guys and us started to rebuild the fort, but after a few days,"
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"we all got kind of disinterested, and give up."
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"Now Stu and his friends mainly hang out at the theater"
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"so as to try and pick up babes."
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"Mama said Daddy was at peace finally,"
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"that he wasn't suffering no more."
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"Then a few weeks later, a visitor came to see us."
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"Can I help you? Oh."
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"Well, good afternoon, ma'am. My name is John Ray Wilkens."
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"I'm with the Clairville Auction House."
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"Yes."
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"Well, about six weeks ago, your husband put down a bid"
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"on one of our bank-owned properties."
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"We tried to call y'all, but I guess the phone's been down."
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"Things been a little tight."
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"Yeah, well, anyway,"
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"your husband put a down-payment bid of $432."
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"Well, thanks for returning the check. We could sure use the money."
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"No, ma'am, I'm not returning the check."
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"You see, the bank took on too many of these failed mortgages,"
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"and if they don't start getting rid of some of these properties,"
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"they're gonna be bankrupt themselves."
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"So, the bank accepted your husband's offer,"
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"being that it was the only one they got."
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"Are you telling me Stephen bought us a house?"
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"Yes, ma'am."
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"Lipstick and rouge, Ma."
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"Don't I know!"
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"So, I guess these memoirs are about us"
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"getting a home of our own,"
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"but they're also about learning what's worth fighting for."
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"My daddy once said of fighting,"
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""We are meant for better things, you and I.""
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"And these days whenever I'm ready to belt someone"
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"who's got my dander up,"
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"I hear him whisper those words in my ear."
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"My mama says that people's lives are like tapestries."
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"The color and the beauty of the designs"
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"depend all on the people you know,"
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"the things you've learned."
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"What I learned this summer"
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"is that no matter how much people think they understand war,"
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"war will never understand people."
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"It's like a big machine that don't nobody really know how to work."
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"Once it gets out of hand,"
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"winds up wrecking all the things"
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"you thought you was fighting for,"
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"and a whole bunch of other good things you sort of forgot you had."
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"I learned this summer that my brother was right."
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"My daddy's the wisest man I've ever known."
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"And that no matter what anybody tells you,"
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"with God's help, human beings can do anything."
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"God! Look at it!"
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"Come on."
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