My more tenderhearted daughter, Becka, said to me during this time, “Mom, when you write a novel you get to rewrite it, but when you live with someone for twenty years, that is the novel, and you can never write that novel with anyone again!” How did she know this, my dear, dear child? At such a young age she knew this. When she told me, I looked at her. I said, “You’re right.
-Elizabeth Strout
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