But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby--and the baby of you--and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear.

Douglas Kennedy


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We all end up ruing everything. It's the nature of this thing we call 'our condition.' Could, but didn't...Wanted to, but stopped myself...All the damn statements of regret we can never dodge.

Douglas Kennedy


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... the perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.

Douglas Kennedy


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... we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ...

Douglas Kennedy


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There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony ...

Douglas Kennedy


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The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.

Douglas Kennedy


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There is much to be said for solitude.

Douglas Kennedy


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All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.

Douglas Kennedy


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Once you've crossed over into that realm of nothingness, your story only really stays in the minds of those closest to you. And when they too vanish...

Douglas Kennedy


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All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Douglas Kennedy


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