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Also by Michael Finkel True Story:
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Contents Cover Also by Michael Fink
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In memory of Eileen Myrna Baker Fin
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1 The trees are mostly skinny where
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2 Terry Hughes’s wife nudges him
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eyes, and trains the .357 square in
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down, hands still locked behind his
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truth. Anything else would be wasti
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“I took no medications and never
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Or them. Nobody knew. Because of th
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North Pond hermit, it turns out, wa
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7 I learned about Christopher Knigh
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8 A white envelope arrived in my ma
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against the rules of journalism. I
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9 Augusta, Maine, is picturesque bu
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East accent. I plowed awkwardly on.
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10 Knight lived in the same campsit
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Knight, matching him step for step.
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He’d spread a carpet over the mag
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It was the kind of total quiet that
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to the nature of the electromagneti
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something. Chris was smart and frie
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13 But why? Why would a twenty-year
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including Charles Darwin, Thomas Ed
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14 Knight actually did have a plan.
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