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        blows forward." 
             "No, I never have.  I'm just not that interested in guns." 
             "Ellie isn't either and Nikki's just as bad.  They say they're 
        afraid of them."
             "A lot of women are." 
             "I know.  I read something about that once.  It's  all mixed up 
        somehow with their fear of rape.  A gun, especially a loaded gun, is 
        too much like a man's cock.   Not in a good way, you understand.  In 
        a bad way.  It  never gets soft and it keeps on shooting and there's
        no way you can fuck it dry. Do you think there's any truth to that?" 
             "Could be." 
             "One thing's for sure.   There's  definitely  something  sexual
        about it.  And it comes out in all sorts of crazy ways.  This guy at
        work  was telling us that in VietNam, a guy in his squad took one in
        the  guts, a  real  hairy guy, they called him the Ape, and when the
        medic  cut  open  his  shirt, he said it looked exactly like a pussy.
        What do you think of that?"
             "I  don't  know.  If he said it looked like a pussy, I guess it
        looked like a pussy.  But how about the guy?  How bad was it?"
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