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This last week I have tried to finish a book that I can't finish, I haven't finished, haven't found the time to finish it.

But where I'm at is amazing.

This story is, it's fascinating.

It's called American Hippopotamus.

It's by John Muellum, and it's on Adevis.com it's like I don't know three or four bucks or

whatever for the book but now I haven't finished it yet and I mean I know how it ends, right? I mean, we all know how it ends. But getting

there is the story. Now the story, well, the story intertwines the lives of two men one was Frederick Russell

Bernham and Fritz Duquesne, D-U-Q-E-S-N-E. Now Fritz is kind of a bad guy, he's known as

the Black Panther of the Velled and at one point Frederick and Fritz were

both commissioned to kill each other but at one point in their lives they come together and burn them you know he was

a patriot he was American integrity and Duquesne was this bad guy just you know

pathological liar megal maniac guy, but they came together for this one cause.

Now Burnham was this guy, I mean I'm going to read you a little bit from the book on Burnham.

This guy was amazing.

Fron's Tearsman, Soldier of Fortune,

spent his life leaping into conflicts with American Indians

and a colonial war. And colonial wars in Africa, he was a scout, you know, kind of like a

military war scout spy. They slinked into enemy territory to gather

intelligence or cut supply lines and he I mean he knew how to live on his own out in the

out in the woods right out in the wilderness he right, out in the wilderness. He, in this, from the book, he has trained himself to endure the most appalling fatigues, hunger,

thirst and wounds, has subdued the brain, infant patients, have learned to force every nerve in his body

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