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CHAPTER SAMPLER 
 
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt sohard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips awayso quickly—by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
 —Geoffrey Chaucer,
 
The Parliament of Fowls
Translated by Gerard NeCastro
 
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TWO FOR THE ROAD
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helby and Miles were laughing when they stepped outof the Announcer. Its dark tendrils clung to the brim of Miles’s blue Dodgers baseball cap and Shelby’s tangledponytail as the two of them emerged.Even though Shelby’s body felt as weary as if she’ddone four back-to-back sessions of Vinyasa yoga, atleast she and Miles were back on solid—present tense—ground. Home.
 Finally
.The air was cold, the sky gray but bright. Miles’sshoulders towered in front of her, shielding her body
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