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your hand when they meet you with a certain kind of dignity and you know from that second that you're going to take him home?" Later in the story, he develops a very powerful relationship with Daisy. During the war, Edmond watches a massacre and is unable to talk and pull himself together because of the shock it gave him. Edmond is also very scarred by his war memories.
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