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MAG 95 - Absent Without Leave

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I Don't Like Recording These. There.

I'd never before witnessed the firing squad and I never cared to again, although of course I was alone in the tunnel. He was dead the moment the first shot sounded, maybe even before that. For all his gaunt, frame and emaciated body he hit the ground with a weight that seemed to shake the mountain. I left the desert as corpse there, left the cave and the mountain, left my home and my country. Eventually I came here and I never wanted to return. That is my story. Statement done. I don't like recording these. There. I know it's unprofessional, but they've... I guess we're past professionalism now, probably. Well,

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