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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
Read between June 4 - July 12, 2020
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Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I’m still trying to find out how a man should live.
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How do people come up with a date and time to take life from another man? Who made them God?