How long could we remain true to the girls? How long could we keep their memory pure? As it was, we didn't know them any longer, and their new habits-of opening a window, for instance, to throw out a wadded paper towel-made us wonder if we had ever really known them, or if our vigilance had been only the fingerprinting of phantoms.
( Jeffrey Eugenides )
[ The Virgin Suicides ]
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