"When I went to first grade and the……" — Jane Smiley

When I went to first grade and the other children said that… - Jane Smiley

"When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment."

— Jane Smiley

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