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Chapter 123 — The Shape of New Days

مؤلف: Judith
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The second week was different from the first.

Not easier — easier was not the right word, because easier implied that the first week had been a problem to be solved and the solving had produced a simpler version. The second week was not simpler. It was different in the specific way of things that have moved from crisis-management to something more sustainable — the difference between running toward an emergency and building a life, which are different physical and emotional postures that requir
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    Reyna made a sound. Not a word — a sound, brief and low, in the register that might have been, in a person less controlled than Reyna, the beginning of a laugh. It was gone so quickly that I could not be certain it had been there.I was fairly certain it had been there.The second block was differe

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