Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good? β¨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.74, Simon and Schuster
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- Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over. β¨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy β¦ βΆ
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