The Importance of Identity in a Novel

For Amy's character, having to sacrifice everything. Like obviously what he was doing was horrible. And by the way, also so ironic that his true calling in life was in fact to be a musician. He was actually a terrible contractor, but it is interesting that his motivations for getting the money, even though he's going about it horribly and does horrible things, don't seem as much about material wealth. It seems like I got to fix this for my parents, right? But in her case, there was this additional layer of ostentation, like the need for ostentation,. That she didn't actually care about, but she felt like she needed. The crying that Ali Wong

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