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Description

An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.

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First Sentence

HAVING WRITTEN "The End" to this story of my life, I find it prudent to scamper back here to before the beginning, to my front door, so to speak, and to make this apology to arriving gusts: "I promised you an autobiography, but something went wrong in the kitchen.

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  1. Kurt Vonnegut (Author)
 

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