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Intro by Elizabeth Strout

“‘But it was hard to concentrate on love, on the energy it required. Fuck love, I thought, and I smiled at my own ingenuity.’”

Wow. That was unpleasant. :(

“‘Oh!’ she had cried. ‘Oh! It looks like a little drowned rat!’ That wasn’t what she’d meant to say. She’d meant words of welcome and consolation for the terrible gift of the world.”