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| 08120c9 | We tell ourselves stories in order to live, | Tracy Daugherty | ||
| 6496dee | apocalyptic notions," she once said, thinking of earthquakes, floods, and fires. "However, mixed up with this tolerance for notions in which the world is going to end dramatically is the belief that the world can't help but get better and better. It's really hard for me to believe that everything doesn't improve, because thinking like that was just so much part of being in California." More deeply, the paradoxes in her writing suggest her r.. | Tracy Daugherty |