No Dominion (The Walker Papers: A Garrison Report) - Plot & Excerpts
He’d quit painting that day, never even finishing the one he’d been working on, and the visions that had haunted him faded away. After a month, her letter said, the doctors had started being cautiously optimistic he’d recovered, and after two, they thought he was safe to go home. She’d explained to him about her being in school, and he was all right with it,which is so strange, after so long, that it’s hard to explain, Gary. For thepast three years he’s been so adamant that I do nothing to risk myself, andnow to have him coming home, knowing that I’m only home for the summer…my mother is worried, but trying not to show it. I only hope he’llbe well enough for me to go back to Oakland in the autumn.Well, no, it’s not the only thing I hope. I hope you’ll come home to me soon,too, so we can be a family. I love you.Letters like that could keep a guy going a long time, and I got a stack of ‘em every time there was a mail call. Resta the guys gave me grief, but it was envy, not meanness, that drove ‘em.
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