The Book of Speculation
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What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker, fueled by the startling discovery that the women in my family have a disturbing habit of not only dying young, but drowning on July 24th.
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that if something terrible was made out of a beautiful thing there was an obligation to restore beauty, to reinstate meaning.
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A future filled with wonderful children—Wild Boys and mermaids, fortune-tellers and dancers—profitable beauties, all.
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He needed little, but what he desired seemed increasingly impossible.