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FAMILY PORTRAIT

The first thing that I thought was wrong with this family was that they didn't appear to belong together, or even to be related to each other. About a half dozen of them were standing in the desert wind beside a silver-gray hearse; and although they were grouped fairly close together, they did not resemble a family portrait so much as they appeared to be the hastily assembled employers of a small, disorderly company.
(John Irving | A Prayer For Owen Meany)

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