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Fort Wilderness

by Andrew Bienen
Issue #137
Fall 2018
By this time next week—and possibly sooner—I’ll be just another man who abandoned June. I’ve outlasted most of the others and in some twisted way I’m proud of that fact. I never “gave my all” according to June’s impossible standards...

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