Wallace Stegner - The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943)

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He was a strange child. Now he clung to her skirts so closely that he hampered her walking, and she laid her hand on his head and kept it there because she knew that somewhere deep down in his prematurely old mind he lived with fear.

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It wasn't until Salt Lake City that I began to be a real addict. I would go down to the library two or three times a week to bring away three or four books each time, without any direction.

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