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...delicious dilemma Pirandello poses: Three strange characters: a man (we'll say A), his wife (B) and an older woman (C), whom the man has forbidden his wife to contact. A says it's because C is mad: that she believes the man's wife is her daughter, when in fact her daughter was the man's first wife, who died in an earthquake, and B is his second. C says A is mad: that he mistakenly believed his wife had died in an earthquake, and to humor him B pretended to be another woman, whom he then married...
...they can keep nattering and give their shallow lives the semblance of drama. They want to believe the husband, because he speaks with such fiery protectiveness. They want to believe Signora Frola, because she was the first to speak, and because she clucks with such matronly concern over her daughter and her son-in-law, and because Joan Plowright invests her with such easy dignity. In fact, there are no facts, just testimony. As Laudisi, the one skeptic ion the crowd, says, "Oh please! What can you learn from facts? ... What on earth can we ever know about anyone else...
...energy she once had - to introduce her to friends and family in Minnesota. It was the Carlsons who put together the picture book for their new child, a kind of window that all the orphans have been peering through. The second-to-last page shows the Carlson's biological daughter, Zoe, beckoning from a gleaming hall, with the caption: "Come join us at preschool soon." The last page has only this text: "Generally, stories say 'The End' right here. But let's try this - 'The Beginning.'" For now, though, the new start will have to be delayed, probably until...
...after the fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more than a decade in the desiccated south of France have taken an awful toll...
...worry about whether he would make it home. But before he even raised the issue again last November, she knew what was coming. "It was just the way he talked about the mine. He loves his job," she says. Randy knew his children didn't approve--his 11th-grade daughter Brittany fainted dead away when she first learned he was trapped, and she has difficulty talking about it to this day. His sons, both older, expressed their opposition, but, he says, "I think they knew I was going." Annette gave in graciously. "I thought, 'O.K., it's time...