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I knew that Adam had a sister, but this was the first I’d heard about her being in New York—a resident of Morningside Heights, no less, and doing graduate work in English at Columbia. Two weeks later, I caught my first sight of her on campus. She was walking past Rodin’s statue of the thinker on her way into Philosophy Hall, and because of the stro

gewesen. Aber in letzter Zeit nutzte sie ihre morgendlichen Runden auch als Möglichkeit zur Flucht vor den Turbulenzen in ihrem Privatleben. Ihre Beziehung zu Grady wurde immer angespannter und sie vermutete, dass er sie betrog. Die Angst, ihn zu verlieren, nagte an ihr und beherrschte

Allison had moved because her

The ticket hall was teeming, there were wide walkers everywhere, the name he gave to people who wade rather than walk, or have bags on either side of them, or have some other kind of inconsiderately expansive gait.

She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always wen