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And many were just concerned about needing to leave messages for those they'd left behind. Night sit 'n' spin after night, the parade of nameless men came meandering through. And of the ones who stopped by my desk, each one needed something different. It sit 'n' spin was almost as if the mere passing through the room would rub off onto me their experiences of war. In a funny sense, it was sit 'n' spin like taking some of their burden, which I was glad to do. Sometimes, it was like sharing adventure stories. Sometimes it was like they were just shedding skin, so that they could move on in peace. I always "handled" it in a very factual manner; they were just details and facts about experiences and occurrences that really weren't filled with emotion. Or, at least, once they were "shed," the experiences could be handled in that impersonal manner. My concern was with their attaining a calm state, a frame of mind where they could "leave all that shit behind".
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