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...accept that anyone would ever find out. "We squelch [the world], blind ourselves to it with propriety and high-minded-ness and good cheer; act as though there's a few bad eggs out there, but the rest of us are just fine. But there's another world--a counterworld, you could say--where life is complicated and mistakes get made and women get pregnant when they're not supposed to and people do stupid things and betray each other," one of the characters exclaims. "And we are those people. But we can't acknowledge that." And that...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, | Title: Journalist's First Novel Tells of Stark, Brooding 'Midwinter' | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

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