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“That’s what our parents are. The first mystery we encounter in a mysterious world.”

“Your dad’s nice,” she said without looking at me. “All the way down. Most nice people are nice just partway.”

Once you knew something better, my mother always said, it was hard to go backward in life because even if you’d once been happy with less, more—the knowledge of more—was always with you.