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Did Melissa’s feet balk at the restacking of Melissa’s body above them of a morning? They did not.
She has seen posters saying stress is bad for babies and thought, What could induce more stress than DON’T FEEL STRESS IT HARMS YOUR BABY?
Besides, she’s not sure she believes in “stress”
entirely. Surely turbulence is the ordinary ...
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How often are we selective in what we take as proof of reality? We choose.
Looking up at him and feeling very sorry, it seemed to me that we live in an age of sanctimony—it is the fashion to pass judgment on people, to refuse to acknowledge context or accommodate nuance,
They pretend, they pretend.
She vows to teach her daughter disobedience, within acceptable parameters of course (one doesn’t want to raise a sociopath): a woman who can go her own way (though only up to a point, obviously).
MARCHING OUT OF Arlidge House, he feels so macho there even seems to be a stirring in his trousers. Then he realizes it’s his mobile phone vibrating.
“Nuance,” she once said to him. “And no, Davy, that’s not another word for pedophile.”
every surface covered in bits of white material (Muslims, he thinks he hears, but he doesn’t know what the religious significance is).
