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“ My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks. ”

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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

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