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Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action, and climax. It''s a neat and tidy way of telling a story. But life''s not like that, is it? It doesn''t obey the rules. Life''s stories - like the stories told here in But, personal and impersonal, historical and contemporary - are punctuated by disruption, derailment, and digression. Stories where...