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Our family was on the lunatic fringe. my mother was always completely irrepressible. my father made crowd noises into a microphone.
-Annie Dillard
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Our Family Was On The Lunatic Fringe.

Annie Dillard
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. my mother was always completely irrepressible. my father made crowd noises into a microphone.
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