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What To Do In Iowa When You’re Bored

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Skyler Bartels kept looking over his shoulder. It’s a habit he picked up living at the Windsor Heights Wal-Mart for three days. Really living there. Eating, sleeping, checking out the DVDs, never leaving. The plan was to spend his entire spring break there. Under the radar … There was the military recruiter who told him he had what it takes … Long hair, scruffy college-kid beard, slender build. Pleasant, laid-back demeanor. I had to know. What does it take? “He said I had good posture and didn’t look sad.”

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