Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost … - Karen Joy Fowler

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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Karen Joy Fowler

Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

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