he didn’t want to die. Then he found that the guy who had jumped in there beside him wasn’t quite lucky enough to express the same desire – he was already dead. A VC bullet had torn a huge hole in his head and the spark of life was gone from his eyes. As Ron lay huddled down in that hole with a dead man, he began to examine his life, and at the tender age of 23, decided he didn’t like what he saw. Then he began to explore the dead man’s pockets, and what started out as innocent curiosity became something more. Alicia Granger was a newlywed, but the wedding bells hadn’t rung in a note of happiness. Her marriage was troubled, but she couldn’t quite pinpoint what was wrong. Things her husband said hurt her feelings, and he ignored her in bed. She wasn’t unattractive, but she apparently wasn’t attractive to Gary. Then, sometime after Gary was sent to Vietnam, she got a letter. It was supposedly from Gary, but it sure didn’t sound like him. The writer of this letter spoke of love, apologies, promises... he tried to explain it by saying the circumstances over there had made him look at himself and his life differently. Even that, however, didn’t sound like Gary. Something had definitely changed...

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