"It wasn't that they had meant to be something that they hadn't become. Nothing like that. And she herself had ended up doing exactly what she must have wanted to do. You couldn't say that they had chosen the wrong lives or chose against their will or not understood their choices. Just that they had not understood how time would pass and leave them not more but maybe a little less than what they used to be."
Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (p. 49)
This is amazing, and surprisingly exactly what I was looking for today. You are a mind reader, Samantha. <3
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