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Tim O Brien's Secrets

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Secrets provide many different kind of feelings amongst people. Tim O’Brien believes they are essential to humans. Whenever a piece of information is hidden, people instantly want to know that concealed information. It simply draws people in and makes them emotional. In the novel, Kathy and John both possessed secrets in which they kept from one another. The secrets, instead of drawing the two apart from each other, made them more interested in one another. Kathy was certainly mystified by John’s personality and his actions. Perhaps, this is why she stayed with him for years. He provided a sense of excitement for the time they were together, rather than boring her. People don 't like to be bored. The reason why some romanticize their secrets

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