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Georgia
ashamed
surmount
panic
starving
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(I talked to her for a few minutes, saying I had no choice but to leave. I heard her car radiator boiling, though it wasn’t leaking. She followed me down the hill and into the service station there, where I waved goodbye. I said I’d probably received her latest letter, but hadn’t answered mail for some time.
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(It’s events like this that make me despair, for once again I see Jane going along in the same old way, and wonder what, if anything, has been learned out of all of this. How can one say much has been learned, I wondered, if my wife is at death’s door, and is currently starving herself? Each challenge we have to meet and surmount is at a lower level, and simply to break it or surmount it leaves one only back at the next level from which the fall took place. There’s never a surge up a few rungs on the ladder, from which we can look back in triumph.
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