Sarah Vaughn, the writer of the comic ALEX + ADA, posted this on her Tumblr the other day. It hit me in the chest like a sledgehammer. I couldn't thank her enough for making it.
My story begins eight and a half years ago in late 2005, when I left the States for 12 month deployment to Baghdad. At the time I was dating a girl named "Lana," whom at the time was the girl I had dated the longest. Three weeks into my 12 month deployment and she already got jittery. Five weeks later I go home on leave...
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So I plan on putting music off to the side tonight because I really need to get my "story" and emotions out. I plan on writing a very long blog entry tonight telling all so that maybe I can get some feedback, or more importantly some solidarity, maybe even some new friends.
In the mean time... any single SGs interested in talking with me and...
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It took no more than about two and a half weeks for everything good I had going for me to fall apart after I left for Germany. This is a pattern in my life: give up everything important to me for the Army. I'm always gone, and when I'm gone I lose what I love most. And I'm tired of it. In fact, while I...
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