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“Sometimes, when he couldn’t sleep at night, he would open the letter and read it again. He would summon the past and wonder what would have happened in another version of it, if he hadn’t said goodbye to Hanwen, the first woman he’d loved. He wouldn’t have had that word then, love; that came later, when he’d come to America and picked up the language that insisted on putting names to every feeling.”