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So, the Colonel tought, here we come into the last round and I do not know even the number of the round. I have loved but three women and have lost them thrice.
You lose them the same way you lose a battalion; by errors of judgement; orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions. Also through brutality.
I have lost three battalions and three women and here comes the fourth, and the loveliest, and where the hell does it end?

Across the River and Into the Trees.
Ernest Hemingway