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A Farewell to Army

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chapter 2

The next spring, I returned to the same town and found that it had not changed at all except that it was greener and there were more guns and hospitals. I found that my army unit was still staying in the same house. Upstairs in my room, I found my bear Teddy and my things untouched. My roommate lieutenant Renoridy woke up when he heared me come in.

" Hello! Welcome back! How are your travels?"

" Excellent!" I said.We hugged and kissed each other.

"Did you have any girls?" he asked.

"Yes, of course. In Milan, Firenze, Roma, Napoli...The best was in Milan. "

"Wonderful! You have to tell me everything tonight. I need to go back to sleep and rest up for the night with Miss Barkley. Don't look so surprised. We've got lots of pretty English girls here now. This one is mine and I am thinking I might even marry her once the war is over. "

" That's great! But tell me, why is the town so quiet? Isn't anybody working now? "

" We have only several patients. I heared people saying that the fighting will begin again next week. I don't know. Do you think it's all right that Miss Barkley becomes my wife?"

" Sure, definitely. "

He smiled and went back to sleep. As I washed my face in the basin, I looked at Renoridy resting on his bed. He was a hamesome guy from Amouphy, and very good friend of mine. He loved being a doctor.

" Can you lend me some money? About fifty." He asked me.

I gave him some and he thanked me. In the evening I went to the dinning hall and found the young priest from Perugia there. He became upset when he learned that I did not visit his family during my travels. He had written to his father and they had prepared for me to come. I felt ashamed and apologized as best as I could. I had truely wanted to go, but I could not explain why I did not go. Sometimes we just never let ourselves do the things we want to do. It was hard to explain having enjoyed hard wild and smoky nights at Rome and Naples, when I could have gone north to his cool, quiet and beautiful town of Perugia. Eventually he had understood that I had intended to go to his hometown, and our friendship was saved.

Then the voice of the captain interrupted our conversation.

" You are sad because you have no women. " he shouted at the priest. "You need your five women, and you angery us because you want our enemies to win. You like as dressers specially as dream women."

"No. None of that's true." answered the priest.

We told the captain to leave the priest alone and left the dinning hall.