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Posts tagged ‘Alice McDermott’

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“Charming Billy”

Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liar’s courage:  there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over the years, for a sense of falsehood to seep in, for all that we imagine as inevitable to become arbitrary, for our history together to reveal itself as only a matter of chance and happenstance, nothing irrepeatable, or irreplaceable, the circumstantial mingling of just one of the so many million with just one more. Read more »