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Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Patrick said: " p.43 "Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get."
p.93 "Forget training them (children) in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but sh ...more "

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