He isnt a girl hopefully you learned alot :)
The correct answer is C. In "The Things They Carried," the group of men have to find and destroy certain tunnels. One man must to go into the tunnel headfirst, a role that none of them want to do. To decide, they pull numbers, with 17 being the unlucky one. Lee Strunk pulls number 17 (equivalent to the shortest straw).
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