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"I remembered what an old friend, dead these many
years, told me about his
mad wife. One day in the early stages of the disease, when she still had
her lucid intervals, he had gone to the hospital to talk to her about
their
children. She listened for a time, then cut him short. How could he bear
to
waste his time on a couple of absent children, when all that really
mattered, here and now, was the unspeakable beauty of the patterns he
made,
in this brown tweed jacket, every time he moved his arms?"
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