Dubliners has a bit of a special place for me. It was the first time I read a short story and "got it" all on my own without a teacher trying to spoon feed it to me. That changed everything.

The story was Araby.
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--Some of us look for The Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.