She had no idea who the woman was, but she felt a sudden surge of feeling for her—a feeling of sympathy so intense that it surprised her. She was just a stranger—a woman whom she had never seen before and would never see again. All she had to do was to continue with her journey, to turn the corner ahead, and it would be as if the other woman had ceased to exist. That was what you could do with most people you encountered in this life: you just continued to do what you were already doing and you passed them by, because you simply could not stop at every moment and think: This is the only time
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