We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

Lastly, and this may strike you as simplistic, I loved you. I loved you, Franklin. I still do.

Maybe it’s better you teach Laura—what do the kids say? To suck it up.” I would pay for this bout of realism later,

Yuck

culminatory shudder of grief; a thrill of guilty relief.

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