This Must Be the Place

by Maggie O'Farrell

discombobulating,

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She doesn’t know which word to choose. ‘Abortion’ is so blunt, so devastating, so violent a term, with its emphatic ‘-tion’ suffix, too close to ‘aversion’ and ‘emotion’ and ‘violation’. But she can’t say ‘procedure’, can she? Not to this man, who has based whole papers on ownership of expression, on the importance of squaring up to semantics, to using the most perspicuous and apt word for something. And ‘appointment’ is just dodging the whole issue, hiding behind a generalised umbrella term.

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I think about this, how she is my unavoidable constant.

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We must pursue what’s in front of us, not what we can’t have or what we have lost. We must grasp what we can reach and hold on, fast.

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