The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. He can’t go through that twice, and he couldn’t inflict it on anybody else. (He imagines telling William this, and can perfectly conjure up the image of William’s horrified expression. “How remiss of you not to have noticed mortality until now, darling,” followed by a decisive, derisive “you utter sap.”)
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