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They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
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