The End of the StoryA woman attempts to recover from a failed love affair by writing a novel on the subject and finds it a difficult task. The hardest part is the chronology, who did what to whom first. She describes the affair in narrative form, without dialogue, from its happy beginnings -- he was good looking, a poet, 12 years her junior -- to the sordid finale when she turned to stalking him. |
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