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The Beginner’s Goodbye

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I wished I could let her know that I’d kept vigil in the hospital. I hated to think she might have felt she was going through that alone.

And wouldn’t she have been amused by all these casseroles!

That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with.

From ‘The Beginner’s Goodbye’ by Anne Tyler in Granta 118: Exit Strategies. You can now buy the issue or subscribe and receive four issues a year of the best new writing.

Photo by Per Dahl / Corbis.

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