story: “Adventure”
author: Sherwood Anderson
year: 1919
where: Home with Big Gate
note: Referenced in Charles Baxter’s Burning Down the House
a line: “It is not him that I want,” she told herself; “I want to avoid being so much alone. If I am not careful I will grow unaccustomed to being with people.”
theme(s): Unrequited love
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