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Part I, Running, Chapter 1

• Gary begins by describing his innocence regarding the woods, a generic woodland, wilderness setting, and what goes on within them

• He explains to the reader how he maintained this up until the age of 40, and how he was convinced of the Disney version of the forest where nothing suffers

• Gary takes his reader on a journey through a winter morning dogsledding, and how beautiful it is, how he starts out

• He explains about how the ice nearby wasn't frozen solid enough to support weight
• A deer explodes out of a willow copse and he can smell her fear

• Gary witnesses wolves chase after the deer and her frantic flight onto the ice where she breaks through and is slowed

• The wolves catch the deer and hold her by the nose as they disembowel her alive

• Gary is shocked by the violence and appalled at...

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