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Summary
Alfred was on leave. It wasn’t his first tour, but Ivan must have felt it acutely. It was almost strange, Matthew driving up to the—not their—house, the driveway unshoveled. Ivan turned to making oven pizza, various Russian recipes he could cobble together from the American ingredients.
There was a calendar hanging in the kitchen; Matthew watched the red Xs march through the months.
Ivan was cooking something American—hamburgers on the grill, cooler nearby full of beer, Alfred sprawled in the lawn chair, tanned and built from his stay in the desert. The two of them had a collection
of beer bottles scattered around their feet.
“Fuck you!” Alfred laughed, throwing the bottle cap at Ivan.
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