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D's explication: The protagonist, the "Lonely Boy," got conscripted and never returned from Vietnam.
Meanwhile his sister had a son thus completing the Circle of Life.
Ultimately he [LB] suffered inexorably the fate of destiny.
Therefore it wasn't fear or isolation from family, etc., it was the foreboding knowledge of existential doom, unusual in youth.
D's explication: The protagonist, the "Lonely Boy," got conscripted and never returned from Vietnam.
Meanwhile his sister had a son thus completing the Circle of Life.
Ultimately he [LB] suffered inexorably the fate of destiny.
Therefore it wasn't fear or isolation from family, etc., it was the foreboding knowledge of existential doom, unusual in youth.