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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Paul TherouxAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 10, 1941
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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?
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