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• But then you hear that he can’t hear you, you see that he can’t see you. You are not here–and you haven’t even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies’ room door.

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• The women are young, young, young, liquidy and sweet-looking; they are batter, and I am the sponge cake they don’t know they’ll become. I stand here, a lone loaf, stuck to the pan.

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• He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

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• It was the opposite of love, and yet it wasn’t love I was opposed to but the murmurs that said, This is your chance, which seemed less like the promise of a door opening than the threat of one sealing shut.

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• Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he’d keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

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• Up until that moment, I’d been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be.

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• She said that her father’s death had been the hardest thing in her life. “We are all children until our fathers die.

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• The writing is clean. I really wouldn’t have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.

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• I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

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• It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He’s like me, just with different details.

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• She seems sort of lost.’ I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

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• Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

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• It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

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• He said, “People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

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• I said, “It’s not like that.” I wanted to convince her. I said “We think alike.” Oh, my dear,” she said. “A man thinks with his dick.”

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• Now I took a good long look. I’d always heard you couldn’t see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.

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• With so much sky and so much river, you couldn’t help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up.

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• It’s you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip — which means letting go of him.

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• You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You’re tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it’s no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy.

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• I realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it’s what you want. it’s like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.

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Melissa Bank (57)

Birth:	1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

About

Melissa Bank is an American author. She has published two novels, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

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