New Beginning 754

When my mother was a kid her older sister used to tell her, "For somebody so smart, you sure are dumb." My mother would tell me about that at particular times; it wasn't really like her calling me dumb, but I took the point. She didn't say that when I told her about that week at summer camp. She didn't have to; I'd already told myself, when I first realized the difference between what I meant to do about Anna and Sheila and James and what I had actually done.

It's been five years now, and it's...