"No! Please don't go!" pleaded little 5 mwaka old Lucy begged. "Honey, I will be back, I promise," came her father's reply.
You see, her father was going to Iraq to fight in the war.
"Must you?" asked Lucy, tears filling her eyes. "I'm afraid so," answered her father. "Okay," she said, stifling a sob. "But before wewe go, take this." She handed him a keyring, that was half a heart. She had the other half. When wewe put them together, they formed one heart. "And when wewe get back, wewe can give it back to me."
Her father took it in his shaking hands. "Alright, sweetie," he said. His daughter wrapped...
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