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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. South starts now. I was late. I was late for a plane when I saw him.

The frickled kid was in uniform.

Operational camouflage combat fatigues.

Reverse flag on the right shoulder.

High and tight haircut. He was standing on the sidewalk outside, high and tight haircut.

He was standing on the sidewalk outside the airport, and his mother was beside him,

straightening his collar.

His little sister was there, too, and so was dad.

The young man was carrying a backpack the size of a frigidaire.

The thing must have weighed a few metric tons, and he was vaping from an e-cigarette nervously.

I could tell by everyone's body language that this was farewell.

Mother stood three feet shorter than her boy.

She stared upward into his young eyes, and the expression on her face was mournful.

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