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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

Chris Cleave

There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Dating Grandmother Men
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
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Enemy War Writing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Bombs Horse Littles

This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

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