“Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.”

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

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