Summary Of Letting Go By David Sedaris

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Letting go is an article written by David Sedaris may 2008. In this article David tells us his story about how he started to smoke and how addicted he become . David started to smoke in a young age. The entire smoke thing started when he was on a field trip with his school class, the addiction became more “serious” when he went home. Few years later, he had to move to France, because New York banned smoking in the workplace, restaurants and the cigarettes price become more expensive.

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