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  • The Curious Case of the Homesick Bank Robber
    GQ Magazine | Stories

    The Curious Case of the Homesick Bank Robber

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    What’s the hardest thing about spending 40 years of your life behind bars? For one ex-con, it was finally getting out. Kathy Dobie tells the tale of a career criminal who missed prison so badly, he pulled a brazen reverse Shawshank—and damn near got away with it

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  • The Long Shadow of War
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    The Long Shadow of War

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    As a young soldier in Vietnam, Cecil Ison saw something, something so horrific that he buried the memory of it for thirty years and swore he’d never allow it to surface again. Then, on March 20, 2003—the day after we started bombing Iraq—the past leapt up and grabbed him.

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