― Or, as my grandmother once put it to my mother: ‘Your father would be a wonderful man, if only he were different. ― Ha ― Yes, ha. A whole epic of pain and suffering reduced to a single sentence. ― Matrimony as a swamp, as a lifelong exercise in self-delusion. |
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