1. This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
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... ; because to her, as well as her husband, the sneeze had somehow become a transgression. Upon preparation for his visit to the general's office the clerk does his best to spit-shine himself into looking the part of someone in the hierarchy the general may take seriously, all the while subconsciously degrading himself and his own position by orchestrating this over-the ... ...