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“We never let go of that,' Cecily said. 'I mean, even for parents - that's never not your baby, you know?' "I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people--of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.” — Rebecca Makkai
We never let go of that,' Cecily said. 'I mean, even for parents - that's never not your baby, you know?'
"I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people--of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.