text: Maybe he should have cut out of the game yesterday .... Or never come down into the valley weeks ago ... or left Red Springs .... Those " maybes " stretched as far back and as neatly in line as the railroad tracks they had been talking about earlier , one slipping smoothly into another as if cast in one strong string of doubts .
  
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  He isn 't a strong leader and quitting would have been a benefit to him .