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    <body><![CDATA[A glimpse of what the brotherhood of man might mean.  Jack Turner,is dying, &amp; he decides he wants to look up three men  whom he had known  in an English hospital during WWII. Jack sets out on his travels taking him as far as Burma. ]]></body>
    
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