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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.
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I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
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