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\u201cIs any of this real? Could this possibly be the truth? Did such a day, I had to ask, really happen? Of course it did, George said. As inculcated, he began (in his accent it was a word that brought me great pleasure)\u2014as inculcated as we are in the belief that we\u2019re meant for some great purpose, that tomorrow, he said, we\u2019ll live as the wealthy live, we are in truth conditioned to expect very little of our lives. It feels closed off to us to enjoy life. Yet we all have such days\u2014at least once, but as often as not peppered throughout a life. These are the days we would see before we die, if it turns out to be true that we see anything at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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