“I think," she said, "I thought I was telling you a story about how we fell in love." . . . "What do you think the story is about now?" . . . "Sometimes I think it's a story about being tricked. Not that he did it on purpose, but it wasn't accidental, him confiding in me, just then." Of course every confidence is a kind of manipulation. Or calculation. I trust you with this. Or maybe it's I want you to think that I trust you with this.”
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