Monster Essays - The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried
Jimmy Cross is the Lietenant, he always carried letters from a girl named Martha, who was a junior in college. She was not his girlfriend and they were not love letters, but he was hoping some day she would be. He would dig his foxhole wash his hands and unwrap the letters and read them and would think about romantic camping trips, and sometimes he would taste the envelopes flap becuase he knew her tounge had been there. He loved her and he wished she loved him as much as he loved her. He knew she was a virgin and knew he would change that one day. His letters weighed 10 ounces .
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