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68 A Borrowed Book Her name had merely simmered in your past. Seeing it here, I feel its steam. My browsing turns more urgent. Rifling, I know I have no right to read this book, nor you to loan it. The raid halts at a mimeographed half-page, assignment for your freshmen: Rewrite the story in summary form so that the summary exemplifies this theme: “An obsessive desire for security is an appropriate response to a threatening world.” My mad shuffle subsides. The answers I need aren’t tucked into these pages, yet I don’t dare ask what made you link your life with hers. If that alloy proved weak, how can I trust the fine wire pulling taut between us now? ...

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