“Now, how far away did Abingdon Square feel, as though it and she and the restaurant, and Maria Malibran, and the sudden false rainfall by the flickering lights of the Miramar hotel sign belonged to another life, a life unlived, a life I knew had turned its back to me and was being nailed to the wall.” LossSadAnother LifeAndre AcimanEnigma VariationsMissed OpportunitiesMissed ChancesAlternate Life Book:Enigma Variations Source: Enigma Variations