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Do you have children, Dominick?"
"Nope."
"Well if you did," she said, "you would most likely read them not only Curious George but also fables and fairy tales. Stories where humans outsmart witches, where giants and ogres are felled and good triumphs over evil. Your parents read them to you and your brother. Did they not?"
"My mother did," I said.
"Of course she did. It is the way we teach our children to cope with a world too large and chaotic for them to comprehend. A world that seems, at time
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― I Know This Much Is True
― I Know This Much Is True
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America's been living on borrowed time all these years... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price.
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― I Know This Much Is True
― I Know This Much Is True
