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Table of contents
- Cover
- I Want to Show You More
- Title Page
- Copyright © 2013 by Jamie Quatro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Caught Up
- Decomposition:
- Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement
- Here
- What Friends Talk About
- 1.7 to Tennessee
- The Anointing
- Imperfections
- You Look Like Jesus
- Better to Lose an Eye
- Georgia the Whole Time
- Sinkhole
- Demolition
- Holy Ground
- Relatives of God
- Acknowledgments
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