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| f69517a | Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. | racing | Jane Smiley | |
| f5554ec | Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all. | racing | Jane Smiley |