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12 Jim Provenzano

But before the industry tell-all, I’ve got to outline the usual bucolic
revisionist memoir. Brookside, Ohio, where a boy learned the ropes. Call
it Winesburg, if you like, or Ithaca. Call it anything warm and sweet and
innocent where there are always thick packets of handwritten mail and
store-bought pies waiting. Call it home.