The Things They Carried

Does it matter what happened, in the end, to mary anne? would this be a better story if we knew, precisely, what happened to her after she left camp? or does this vague ending add to the story?

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This vague entry serves to leave us with a mystery.....no one knows what happened to Mary Anne, thus, it would be impossible to resolve her disappearance in the text.

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