"'I'd like you to meet the woman who has changed my life', he said."
- Your, what was that?!
"Oh, your LIFE. And she tipped her head and smiled."
"After all, she might have said this was an ordinary occurrence. People change other people's lives every day of the year. There was no call to make a fuss about it."
[and then a meaningful look was exchanged -- one that understood that lives will continue to intertwine.]
«book excerpts in italics from Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe»
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