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while Cecelia drew pictures to illustrate that too. Sylvie laughed helplessly in the corner. She missed Alice suddenly, a feeling that always came at her as if from around a corner, when she didn’t expect it.
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Alice told herself: If I stop asking questions, I’ll stop growing.
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had to tell her I loved her,” Emeline had said. “Even if it killed me. And I thought it might.” This resonated with Sylvie: This moment felt like life and death. She was breaking open, but still breaking.
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Go away? William thought. He’d been dreaming about his conversation with Dr. Dembia regarding his parents. In the dream, William was swimming away from his mother and father, while they swam away from him. And he had told his wife and daughter to go away. So many people leaving each other. There had been a claustrophobic atmosphere in the dream, a
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The two people Julia had been closest to had chosen each other.
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Sylvie could imagine William walking into the lake, feeling like a tablespoon of water that could no longer stay on a spoon.
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She had watched her mother stick out her own marriage, and that path wasn’t for Julia.
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How much else did Charlie feel like he had to hide from us? he wanted to ask.
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William also used to worry about what he did and did not deserve, but no one around him seemed to think in these terms, and it turned out that he no longer did either.
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Because Sylvie understood her older sister so well, she knew Julia was not only mourning him but reeling from the fact that he had died at all. Julia hadn’t planned for him to die, and that shock threatened her entire worldview. Their father’s absence was, after all, unfixable.