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“I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.”

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Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is an American writer renowned for his novel 'The Hours', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and gender. more

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