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“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do — we do it all the time.”

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Tony Herman

These are the final sentences in Alice Munro’s collection of short stories, Dear Life, which won the Nobel Prize.  I believe that the character is lying and that she wishes she could forgive herself. I’m sure that other readers have come to … Continue reading →

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