Maeve Brennan, “The Drowned Man,” in The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
The stories of enduring failed marriages in this volume are some of the saddest stories I’ve ever read. But beautiful.
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Friday, May 17, 2019
“She had shone at a distance”
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Oh...oh, how words can pierce the heart. "...and he wished he could miss her."
Yep. I should have written “enduring failed marriages.” And now I will.
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