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2 named character entries recorded in The Woman in the Room. Open a snippet for the book’s wording.
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he bursts out, thinking of her legs under the white ribbed sheet. “John, she's dying.” “She's not dead yet.” This in fact is what horrifies him. The conversation will go around in circles from here, the profits accruing to the telephone company, but this is the nub. Not dead yet.
His most vivid memory of her in the life he lived as her son is of a time when he was twelve. He and his brother Kevin and this woman had moved to Maine so that she could take care of her parents. Her mother was old and bedridden.