To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

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To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

Carol Shields

1997

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Conformity Man as social animal

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1997

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Carol Shields

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Shields, Carol. Larry's Party. Knopf Canada, 1997, ch. 9.

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