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Fall means that tomato city is now a mold city which can only be destroyed with feelings of extreme guilt. How we have failed to make the tomatos immortal.

“If I can admit my dreams are unoriginal—an old house, a plot of land with my name and clothesline on it, neighbors I can wave to—can I absolve myself from the shame of conventionality?”