Connie and Zack: the conspiracy of two

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

New 100 word Sentence

I surveyed the earth so dearly bought, just a small grassy valley before the armies lined up here an hour ago, observing the ruthlessly efficient process of stacking bodies and collecting all articles of value, the bloody afterbirth of battle, and I pondered the cold calculus of struggle, how any side ever claims victory when so many perish and so many more suffer in war, how any cause could justify such slaughter, my heart growing heavy as the busy toil of cleaning up continued undisturbed by my troubled soldier thoughts, continuing long after I left the horrid place for camp.

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