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Meg was going to have to learn for herself what laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with the people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.
-Tom Perrotta
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Meg Was Going To Have To Learn

Tom Perrotta
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with the people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.
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