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“I am sorry about your oncoming blindness, and moreover, sorry for the loss of your other child, I have lost many family members, my home, my country, my religion, so ai think I can understand a little of your grief, though when my brother died in the war it toppled my mother, so perhaps that specific grief, that of a mother losing her son, I cannot.”

For a moment it seems possible to keep both worlds, both versions of his life, and to move in between them just like moving through a door…With only a little subterfuge he can live two entirely separate existences, never confronting the ultimate question of what to do with himself or what kind of person he is.” P 29

“If I’m allowed a wish, just one, then it is this: I wish for our story to have a happy ending.”