"UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...

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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

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"you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do
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"I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
"We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment...