Bear vs. Baba vs. Amir

Quote from "The Kite Runner"
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<br/>"Lore has it my father once wrestled a black bear in Baluchistan with his bare hands. If the story had beeen about anyone else, it would have been dismissed as loaf, that Afghan tendency to exagerate--sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that their son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school. But no one ever doubted the veracity of any story about Baba. And if they did, well, Baba did have those three paralled scars coursing a jagged path down his back. I have imagined Baba's wrestling match countless times, even dreamed about it. And in those dreams, I can never tell Baba from the bear" (12).

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