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"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."
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"And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else."

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."

"I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m."

"Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against."

"It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago."

"I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc."
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"I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist."


"I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me."


"I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you,' was all I could say in return."


"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."


"My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know."


"Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity."


"The family watched It's a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn't they make a movie about uncle Billy?...Because he was a drunk and fat and lost all that money in the first place. I wanted an angel to come down and show us how uncle Billy's life had meaning."
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