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All these years they’ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contouring to make room, taking certain unlikely positions. But in the end she has done something for him, she’s made a new life possible, and she can always feel good about that.

You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.