They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

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In the story, “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway, both of the characters have been dealt a bad hand. In the first part of the story, Frederic Henry, an American soldier is wounded and forced to crawl back to his unit. In the second part of the story, Catherine Barkley, a nurse for the Allies is being chased by a German soldier. Both have been dealt with a bad hand and wonder if they will survive the day.

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

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