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And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops.
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Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable, and she thought when Dominic heard about it, on the highway, amid the cactus, he would realize that it was she who loved him.
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Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.
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They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.
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Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said.
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"It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though she were advising the girls in her mumbling Greek, "Don't waste your time on life." --
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