They were in a wilderness that was too wild for me, they were living with bears, they were bears, their words flew past deadly animal teeth. I wished I were hearing about this in second or even third hand: “We had a terrible fight,” “I heard they had a terrible fight,” “I had an acquaintance who knew a couple who, back in the early part of the century, had a terrible fight, perhaps even had terrible fights on a regular basis, this acquaintance doesn’t know for sure, she is realizing now that she didn’t really know the couple, on account of the fact that she had mixed intentions with regard to
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