“Like Humpty Dumpty, some people are just too damaged to heal.” “Was Lillian?” “She was healing. I think she might have done all right. She was sure working hard at it.” “But?” said Gamache. Suzanne took a few more steps. “Lillian was damaged, very messed up. But she was putting her life back together again, slowly. That wasn’t the problem.” The Chief Inspector considered what this woman, so loud and yet so loyal, was trying to tell him. And then he thought he had it. “She wasn’t Humpty Dumpty,” he said. “She hadn’t fallen off the wall. She pushed others. Others had had great falls, thanks to
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