"It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1."

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Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.

— Ben Lerner