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Blue Highways

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Highlights

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Life doesn’t happen along interstates. It’s against the law. ^ref-29079

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a road so crooked it could run for the legislature, ^ref-50592

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As soon as my worries became only the old immediate worries of the road—When’s the rain going to stop? Who can you trust to fix a waterpump around here? Where’s the best pie in town?—then I would slow down. ^ref-2542

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I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants. ^ref-48232

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