“On top of the war talk, women were driving me crazy: the ones who said “no” and the ones who said “yes.””

It got downright mystifying just trying to figure out which was worse. At nineteen, it’s hard to know how to act.
Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 463

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