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In the years to come, more than four hundred thousand copies would be printed and sold—including a dog-eared paperback that was purchased for ten cents at a used-book sale by my father, who then placed it in my hands without knowing that by doing so he would change the shape and course of my life as profoundly as an irrigation channel alters the course of a stream in the desert.

