But then she remembered what the gyptians had said: Include things, don’t leave them out. Look at things in their context. Include everything. She felt a little spring of hope when she remembered that. She thought on: When I believed in the jacky lanterns, I saw more of them. Was that delusional? Was I making them up or seeing them? Was it rational to lift the little red fruit to Will’s lips, in that little sunlit wood, and relive the act they’d heard Mary Malone describe, the one that had made her fall in love? Had reason ever created a poem, or a symphony, or a painting? If rationality can’t
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