I'm not afraid, Rafi said. Why not? If I die tomorrow it will have bee…

Mark Helprin
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I'm not afraid, Rafi said. Why not? If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today. ✨ Mark Helprin (2005). A Soldier of the Great War, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I'm not afraid, Rafi said. Why not? If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today. ✨ Mark Helprin (2005). A Soldier of the Great War, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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