Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure

Maybe if I smiled more when I made jokes, he thought idly, leaning against the side of the barricade. Then they’d understand what I meant. That, of course, raised the question: Did he want people to understand? It was often more amusing the other way. Besides, smiling was so garish.

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

Written By Alice Sebold

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