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“Theo,” I say. “What do you want?” “I think what I want most of all,” Theo says, “is … peace.” “Peace,” I repeat slowly. “I don’t know if I’ve ever let myself have peace. I thought staying in one place my whole life would do it, but maybe I won’t know peace until I choose one thing I want to do and put everything I have behind it and see it through.”

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