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    Explore Kurt Vonnegut's posthumous collection 'Armageddon in Retrospect'-unpublished stories and letters revealing how the Dresden survivor transformed trauma into wisdom, humor, and humanity.

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    The enemy isn't individual soldiers or even individual leaders—it's the whole machinery of war itself, the way it turns human beings into abstractions. You can acknowledge the darkness while still choosing to be a source of light.

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