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He saw Renee’s face when he’d told her he didn’t want to see her anymore, ten years ago. The lips bloodless; the eyes stunned, like a struck child’s. But she’d lifted her chin and smiled, with the gallantry he’d loved in her.

“She has the vague fleeting sense of a life that will grow bigger, or wider open spaces, a purer love, voracious appetites.”

“she would be content to watch them live, working in the shadows so that everything was perfect, so that the mechanism never jammed. She has the intimate conviction now, the burning and painful conviction that her happiness belongs to them. That she is theirs and they are hers.”

“she would be content to watch them live, working in the shadows so that everything was perfect, so that the mechanism never jammed. She has the intimate conviction now, the burning and painful conviction that her happiness belongs to them. That she is theirs and they are hers.”

“We will, all of us, only be happy, she thinks, when we don’t need one another anymore. When we can live a life of our own, a life that belongs to us, that has nothing to do with anyone else. When we are free.”