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Here is Something You Can't Understand.....
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Here is Something You Can't Understand.....

A friend’s meeting with a Special Forces soldier on his way back from Ukraine evokes memories of other people George Blecher met who had killed people in their lives. He tells three anecdotes--how he could sense danger streaming off two of the men, but in the case of an ex-marine sergeant whom he had as a student, all he could sense was pent-up anger and frustration.
Hey George? What have you been up to?
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Hey George? What have you been up to?

Hi everyone, just taking a moment to catch you up on what has been going on in my corner of the world. Here's a film review you might check out: https://www.nycitywoman.com/boy-wonder-at-mid-career/
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"A friend once told me that my fiction is about the many ways that people hurt each other and themselves because they think that they live in a Universe of One: they don't quite know that other people exist. I think that's an accurate description. I hope this doesn't suggest that the work is somber; self-involvement can lead people into pretty comical situations."

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"In fiction or in journalism, the most important thing for me is that the people in the stories, whether real or fictional, feel fully alive

and recognizable."​

ABOUT GEORGE BLECHER