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The pain he feels in his own gut is either something to do with the caffeine, or the stress of realizing that if it’s not snipers or blindness stealing your children, it’s cancer coming to snipe your wife, and there’s not a fucking thing a guy can do about any of it except to drop to his knees and pray, to pretend like someone or something that gives a shit is on teh other end of the line, to pretend anything, like you did when you were a kid until the pretending seems real, because without that all you’ve got for comfort is what’s in front of your face…
