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“I think back to this moment sometimes now, look back at that person I was, months before I couldn't unknow what had happened.”

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“Sometimes it seems all I have are questions, that I will ask the same ones all my life. I'm not sure if I even want any answers, don't think I'd have a use for them, but I do know I'd give anything to be another person—anyone else—for even just a day, an hour. There's something about that distance I'd do anything to cross.”

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“He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.”

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“. . . overcast afternoons when it seemed possible the whole world had run out of things to say.”

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“Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at all.”

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“I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.”

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“Because as far as I can tell, Calista's main way of caring about people is to hate them.”

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“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.”

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“Ed began explaining this Yo La Tengo thing, how he was listening to a record of theirs, on vinyl he emphasized, and he'd been thinking about a genre of music called shoegaze something about the body language of the shoegazer, the perpetual crumpling or downward slope of the gazer's neck, and then he changed the subject, abruptly, to nettle root—had I ever taken nettle root? I was in a subdued, semi-meditative state, but he repeated himself, louder—Mary, have you ever taken nettle root?—and I said, Um, no, to which he immediately began chanting.”

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“And how sad it is that the last face someone makes at you is always the face you remember the most.”

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“But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this?”

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