At a reading of this story at Symphony Space for the NPR radio program Selected Shorts, the editor for the 2006 Best American collection, Ann Patchett, indicated that she considered the story to be the best in the collection.
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His family moved to Tumalo, Oregon when Percy was in the fourth grade and Percy attended a private school in Sunriver, Oregon.
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