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“Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.”
Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories


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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff
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