“I had rehearsed, losing him, not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses before hand, but, as all superstitious people do, to see if my willingness to accept the very worst might not induce fate to soften its blow. Like soldiers, trying to fight by night, I lived in the dark so as not to be blinded when darkness came.”
— Jul 16, 2026 07:49PM
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