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Ray Bradbury’s 1957 novel Dandelion Wine is regularly described as autobiographical. That characterization is apt—there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel’s protagonist, Douglas Spaulding, and those of Bradbury—but it should not be taken to mean that every person or event depicted in Dandelion Wine has a real-life analogue. Much of the novel is pure invention, and readers who neglect this fact and instead focus excessively on correspondences between the novel and Bradbury’s life can thus ________