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Of course, I set out to find Leper right away. He had said he escaped! Is the war really that terrible!? By his "Christmas location", I knew he meant his home in Vermont. I took a train and a bus, and arrived there the morning after i received the telegram. Maybe Leper didn't mean he escaped from the war after all. Of course not. He probably escaped from spies! Yes, that was it, it had to be spies! Leper let me in to his house, led us into his dining room, and proceeded to tell me how he did, in fact, escape from the war. He tells me how they were going to give him a section eight discharge, for insanity. If that happened, he would never be able to live a normal life after that. He explained how he couldn't let that happen. Leper and I go for a walk after we eat lunch with his mother, and from the things he tells me, I do believe that he is truly insane. He told me many stories from base, including one where his roommate was holding a broom. "but I saw right away that it wasn't a broom, it was a man's leg which had been cut off" pg 142. I couldn't handle these stories. I didn't care about these stories. So I ran, and left him there by himself.