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- The men, and Pete in particular, always seemed a little surprised, and therefore a little more hurt and a little more damaged, by things that happened—the deaths of prized animals, accidents, my father's blowups and contempt, forays into commodity trading that lost money, even—for Ty—my miscarriages.p. 114.0
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