What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is got into studying the characteristics of the T-34." Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russian armor during World War Two. The T-34 tank had been the Soviet Union's salvation and thereby the salvation of all the Allied Powers- and, by extension, Horse lover Fat's, since without the T-34 he would be speaking - not English or Latin or the Kline - but German.

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