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She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience.
That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse.
Her daughter, who had always been good, even if that was more disappointing than being great.
Her daughter had never been a problem before, had always zipped along without resistance, as tidy and self-contained as those fish that clean their own tanks.