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“ All these years, they’ve been two little plants, sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting 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.@

“ She knows he loves her, she doesn’t wonder about that anymore.”

Marianne had a wildness that got into him for a while, and made him feel that he was like her, that they had the same unnameable spiritual journey, and that neither of them could ever fit into the world. But he was never damaged like she was. She just made him feel that way.