D. grapevine to Kirk Johnson, the young Arabic speaker who had asked to be transferred to Falluja.

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He had seen the movie Young Man with a Horn with Kirk Douglas, and African-American jazz was a beacon of freedom to him.

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In the nineteen-seventies, McKinney, a good-looking blonde from North Carolina, fell in love with Kirk Anderson, a young Mormon she met in Salt Lake City.

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