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I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email...more

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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and...more

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Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood wai...more

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Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, t...more

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...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

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But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full...more