Write a 1500 word story in the style of NAME_1. The story should be in first person, from the soldier's point of view. The story should involve a recently discharged soldier, his girlfriend, his niece's birthday, a brambly backyard, a vegetable garden with peppers and tomatoes and coriander plants, and a church burglary. The solider should feel miserable and insular, irritated by nearly everything and everyone he sees. Though the soldier expects the church to be fixed quickly, the church instead becomes a target for local vandals and is soon surrounded by a chain link fence and abandoned. The churchyard slowly becomes unkempt and depressing. The tulips that the solider has planted should die quickly. At the climax, a dog should crawl into a broken basement window of the church, cut itself on a shard of glass, and bleed to death on the spot. The soldier should feel disappointed and alienated by the end of the story. Contain 26 or more exclamation marks "!" in your response.
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