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I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.
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