He rode a bicycle up to the front to deliver candies and chocolates to the soldiers. He had been driving an ambulance for only two or three weeks. Standing at the front a shell exploded three feet away from him. Two men were killed. He was taken to a hospital where he spent weeks getting operated on. He spent time falling in love with a night nurse. She was seven years older than he was. Before all of this when he was seventeen he worked for a newspaper. After this the woman wrote to him and declared she would marry the doctor she had been engaged to. He drank more. He paddled across the lake with his sisters to meet other kids. His mom was invuriated with him. All of this happens before he turned twenty-one.
This all happens in the first twenty minutes of the Hemingway series from OPB and Ken Burns. It is good.
— MichaelRpdx