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Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing__scape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you__l find a compulsion to flee__ seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. _ Teller: A Novel
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Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing__scape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you__l find a compulsion to flee__ seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. _ Teller: A Novel
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