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“But his body, so cold, so unrelentingly unmoving was beginning to belong back to Earth, a block of perfect marble into which, even now, I tried to press my own life, exhaling, exhaling, exhaling. It's fruitless, you know it's fruitless, but you do it anyway, entreating your dead son to return to this perfectly usable thing, this beautiful, still body, so umblemished, so strong, so midstride.”

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Book:Fi: A Memoir of My Son
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Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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Alexandra Fuller
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Alexandra Fuller is a renowned author born in 1969. Her works are known for their vivid portrayal of life on the African savannah and wildlife, which have won her a wide readership. more

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