It was Rosewater who introduced Billy to
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Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy., but he and Billy were
dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Rosewater., for instance, had shot a fourteen-year-old fireman, mistaking him for a German soldier. So it goes. And Billy had seen the julian barberie nude greatest massacre in European history, which was the firebombing of Dresden. So it goes.
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