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"Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.526, New Directions Publishing
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