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"They seemed to be at a delicate point, where a very strong love was needed to bind them together, habit wasn't enough. They kept trying to reach for what they had once had. Near the end, as a desperate plan, she tried to talk him into moving to America with her. Osman wasn't going to leave his family, who would do a thing like that? Well, she had."

Improvement by Joan Silber

 

"...the feeling, as Somerset Maugham put it, that it was not a story one was reading, but a life one was living."

The Romance of Elsewhere: Essays by Lynn Freed