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The first person I killed didn't run. One. I never knew his name, just his crime, so I called him One. "I didn't know I should run because I couldn't hear the rotor blades chop-chop-chopping," he said, sitting beside me on the porch—not the way I left him; the way I met him: whole, covered in Afghan dirt and barefoot, hot from digging.

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