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There is a passage from "A widow for one year" that occurs during a wedding ceremony toward the end of the book that I almost read aloud at my wedding to W. Something about me being poor and having only wishes and dreams to give to her.




You're thinking of Irving, not Updike. Though I have loved him since my early teens too. How are you doing? You've seemed decidedly down in your last several posts.

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver