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I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can’t imagine ever running out of things to say.
“How is that even possible?” the philosopher says. “He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.” She knows. She knows. So it begs the question, doesn’t it? Did she unkind and ungood and untrue him?”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“There is a picture of my mother holding me as a baby, a look of naked love on her face. For years, it embarrassed me. Now there is a picture of me with my daughter looking exactly the same way.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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