[He swallows, nods, blinks. Yeah. He gets that, too. He could say more, but it would be making it about him, and it would sound like he was trying to play suffering Olympics, and he knows better. After the first loss, the others hurt, but in a way they don't hurt more. They all hurt the same, because when you've lost someone, there can't be anything that hurts more than that.]
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He was a hero.