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We used to go down to the arcade, the four of us, every friday night after school. We'd play retro games and buy slushies and chips, but our favorite game was the shooting one at the back. We got so good at it, Myles and I bought Pellet guns! Those guns were the most fun I'd ever had, mostly because of the wild running we did after using them. We rode our bikes everywhere, we did exactly what we wanted, it was me and my best friends and nothing could touch us.
That was the summer. The last summer before the war.
I get it now, we never should have stuck with Régine like we did if we'd wanted to save our skins.. But we didn't. We just wanted to be together.
I remember when they took Reed, I watched from the window as those military bastards took my kindergarten classmates and one of my best friends and filed them into one of those trucks like animals going to slaughter.
Régine was crying, she thought it was all her fault, but it wasn't. It would've been one of us, they just took Reed by chance.
I remember when he came back too, Reed was so different. My best friend never would have done what he did to me, but I guess I deserve it for asking Régine to do what she did.
Myles found me in the field afterward, god I love that boy.. Hold on, I'm rambling aren't I? Sorry.
Let's start from the beginning.
My name is Win Butler. I lived in the Suburbs, and I'm going to tell you about the Arcade Fire.
I have to, before they take me too.
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