October 14, 2008

all one thing

Tim O’Brien, in The Things They Carried:
“It’s now 1990.  I’m forty-three years old, which would’ve seemed impossible to a fourth grader, and yet when I look at photographs of myself as I was in 1956, I realize that in the important ways I haven’t changed at all.  I was Timmy then; now I’m Tim.  But the [...]

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