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Reading 'Slaughterhouse-Five' in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war
• arcleinThere was no one to receive my romantic letters, but killing and romantic letters are the chief concerns in a war, if I understood films correctly. I found Lauren on Myspace. It got romantic. Handwritten notes crisscrossed vast oceans, and one of them asked if I had ever read a particular novel. It was by Kurt Vonnegut. He wrote about war and time travel, and how the past isn't really the past.