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The Trasks

"These Trasks now. They fascinate me. I know them so thoroughly and I have gone into their ancestry. I know their moods and their impulses perhaps better than I know my own—surely better than my own." —John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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