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  1. Public Bookmark 74

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    "You think I'm a good man, Baker?”

    “Don't think bad men can love the way you do,” Art said.

    Or: Night four. Art and Pete have a talk.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    Pete wins the Walk. He shoots the Major. He does everything right. He still comes back to the starting line at the end of it though.

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    Pete is stuck doing the Walk over and over again. No matter how things end, he always comes back to the moment where he met Ray Garraty. The moment that matters most. The Walk is hard and unforgiving, but it's better than being alone. They make do.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    #47, Pete McVries, has a girl back home. It takes a while to get him to open up about it, he’s cagey about his home life, the tinfoil wrapped package of cookies in his pack, and the photograph he keeps folded into quarters and tucked into his shirt pocket. Almost everyone’s tried to get a peek at it over his shoulder at one point or another, and Olson even gets a warning for interference when he tries to snatch it from his hands.  

    “C’mon,” Olson whines. “Why don’t you want us to see her? She ugly or something?”

    “Prettiest thing you’ve ever seen.” McVries is finally coaxed into saying. “Big brown eyes, red hair, soft all over.”

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    22 Jun 2026

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    When Ray tells the story, he'll tell it like this: he wakes up, he starts walking. He walks right back to Pete.

    Of course, it’s not that simple.

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    22 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 79

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    McVries, the immutable fucking bleeding heart, had decided to use up his wish right before the Major cocked the hammer backwards with his thumb.

    He wished–no, begged, with his voice raw and uninhibited with panic–for Ray’s life. For a second winner of the Walk. Not a seat at the table, not ten naked ladies or a great big rocket to bring him to the moon, not even the carbine. But a life. Because, impossibly, Peter McVries saw a light in everything.

    (or: years after the walk, ray and pete keep moving along)

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    14 Jun 2026