Carolina QuotesLast Christmas I received a set of golf clubs that, my father likes to remind me, cost a goddamned fortune. He says that he would give his right arm for such a beautiful set of clubs.
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Story, "My manuscript" - p.27
- work
- Barrel Fever (1994)
- year
- 1994
- locator
- p.27
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