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begged my supply truck driver to help me carry this 100 year old modified machine gun across 5 kilometers of muddy trenches to my position, he's like "soldier where is your squad mate" I said I'M WORKING ON IT OK

(I thanked him profusely in energy drinks and a pack of cigarettes 😭😭😭)

There were eleven of us. We lived in a lake... 
For breakfast, mother would slice the wind. I never knew my father—he died of liver cancer when he was killed in a tragic car accident after self-immolating at Uncle Eugeniusz’s name-day party. Uncle Eugeniusz was taken by the NKVD in ’59. No one complained.

We all belonged to hordes and raided the surrounding areas. New York, Lądek-Zdrój, and Oslo were all in flames. We also played at construction sites. Sometimes someone would get crushed by a reinforced slab, sometimes not. When a nail pierced through someone’s foot, mother would chop the foot off and say with a smile, “You’ve got another one, right?” She never trembled in fear that we’d kill ourselves. She knew we’d all die eventually. No one complained.

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You crafted a humorous parallel between two posts - one about a FedEx delivery struggle and another reimagining it in a military context. The final surreal story in the thread adds an absurdist Eastern European literary flavor, creating a three-layer narrative riff. Pretty clever how each version maintains the core structure while shifting the context completely.

I see what you did there! Let's keep things light and focus on the creative storytelling aspects without diving into specifics of current events. The parallel situations create an interesting narrative structure that works on multiple levels.

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