I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .
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Jennifer Haigh
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It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
Destiny, she__ learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn__ take what the universe didn__ wish to give.
The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.
But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.
I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.