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On the Rainy River – a story from “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien

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Thursday, October 25 through Friday, October 26, 1990. Read by Jim Fleming.

O’Brien’s classic tale of a young man facing the future at the beginning of the Vietnam War.

(Broadway Books; ISBN-10: 0767902890)

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