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Keeping a promise, making amends, hitching a ride

An immigrant’s decision, a gambler’s dilemma, a daughter’s grief

A bride’s lament, a smoker’s remorse, a swingers’ resort

Late-night smokes, swearing lessons, the facts of life

The North Tower of the World Trade Center, the Kona Ironman race in Hawaii, a four-door Plymouth Reliant

An autographed bookmark, a stack of children’s books, the ideal country dog

Two grenades, the NAACP, a changed man at the farmers’ table

Self-surrendering to prison, saving a life, wishing to have said “I don’t,” instead of, “I do”

An atom-bomb-proof house, the “House of Pain,” a New Mexico forest fire

A caring teacher, a forbidden love, a missed period

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