“Mrs. Sandoval," Homer said swiftly, "your son is dead. Maybe it's a mistake. Maybe it wasn't your son. Maybe it was somebody else. The telegram says it was Juan Domingo. But maybe the telegram is wrong.”

—  William Saroyan, book The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy (1943)

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American writer 1908–1981

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