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| 94915b3 | Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self. | russell-banks the-sweet-hereafter | Russell Banks | |
| ac7ba48 | For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem. | russell-banks the-sweet-hereafter | Russell Banks |