Excerpt from Chan's Wife a Story

Turning over in his mind, as he lent only half an ear to her fragmentary talk, the extraordinary things this girl had said to him, eager and alive and intimate and humor ous and self-questioning, he asked himself what it meant. And it came to him that never before had he been so near, so close up against, another human being.

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