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Back Bay Books, 2015

I gave Mike seven different brands of cookies, and he not only picked the company he liked best, but also created a completely new variety of oatmeal chocolate chip, which was his favorite flavor of cookie growing up

"Aren't you the man who claimed that Townes Van Zandt is the greatest songwriter in the history of popular music, 'And I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that'?" "This may sound a bit odd," the Texan replies, "but I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter

The Oka Crisis, as it has gone down in Canadian history, lasted nearly two months and ended with a climbdown by the authorities and advice to police forces to go softly on Indian relations

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