I don’t even like short stories, but this? beautiful.

14 Aug

And he discovered, much as he’d suspected, that once life caught up with you, you could never quite shake it again.  It endeavored to hobble you with greater and greater frequency.  How you managed to remain upright became your style, who you were.

– “The Train of their Departure”

David Bezmogis; The New Yorker: August 9, 2010

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