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Texas Army National Guard, nineteen years, first sergeant.
I had a phone in a plastic bin in a room with four other men in it and it lit up at 2:17 with a number I did not know.
I almost did not answer it.
I want that on the record at the start.
“Daddy?”
“Wren?”
“I’m sorry I woke you up.”
She was nine.
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