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    Eight years later.

    "To bid goodbye, is to say, ‘I must put you into God’s hands, since I can no longer hold you in mine.’ A goodbye is a capitulation to forces bigger, stronger than ourselves, than our wills, our desires. It is a surrender, of someone dear, to the questionable mercies of the world. One quite literally gives them up.” She sipped at her wine. “Goodbyes are shattering, and devastating, and holy. And life is full of them. Do not try to make them easy. Far better to make them worthwhile."

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    22 May 2021

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    quite good

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    The art world is being turned on its head as Marianne Bonheur arrives in Paris in the spring of 1907. At its heart is the house at the rue de Fleurus with its Saturday salons hosted by Brigitte Abiatti and great collection of contemporary art curated by her younger sister, Héloïse de Montfort.

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    04 Nov 2020

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    Héloïse is six years old when she first meets a naked Marianne, who is thirty-six, in the meadow behind her house. They are both twenty-eight and fully clothed when Marianne meets Héloïse for the first time, in the library where Héloïse works.

    Time travel shenanigans and heartbreak based on The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

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    08 Sep 2020

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    Weddings inevitably lead to people asking her when she’s going to find a man and settle down, and she gets enough of that from her family on a regular basis, thank you very much. But she made it through dinner without much trouble, and now she somehow got herself the company of the prettiest gal there.

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    16 Jun 2020

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    Molly tried her best. When Harry had told them, Arthur had asked excitedly, "is this a Muggle thing?" Hermione had hurried out a "no!" and a frantic history of gender diversity in the wizarding world.

    "It's just that I'm a girl," Harry had said, and Arthur had nodded and asked her about how telephone booths worked. He would call her by the right pronouns until the day he died at the respectable old age of one hundred and thirty three, and he would make it seem easy.

    But Molly had to try. Hermione explained things faster and higher-pitched every time Molly messed up a pronoun. Molly frowned and muttered and put extra potatoes on Harry's plate at breakfast. Harry slept in Ron's room, which didn't bother either of them but which made Hermione scowl.

    Harry got boxes of sweets and warm hugs, as Molly chewed things over. For her fifteenth Christmas, the Weasley sweater she would receive would be a bright, friendly, terrible pink.

    The next time Harry visited, Molly put her on Ginny's floor to sleep-- for some definition of sleep that involved Hermione hissing threats at three in the morning if Harry and Ginny didn't "shut up about Wronski feints, do you know what time it is."

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    07 Jun 2020