expression conveying to her, as male expressions would, the simple wish that he might connect with so pleasing a being, as if she were an angel with the power to remake a man's life, his sense of the past and of himself, as if a woman was something in which a man and his history, his pains, his failings, could reside.
( Oscar Hijuelos )
[ The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio ]
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