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Excerpt from Portrait of a Lawyer as a Young Man:
"I feel as if I have gone through some dark confusion and when I came out on the other side, I was in a completely different movie, with a different plot and presumably a different ending."
She took a dramatically understated sip of water and responded, "Who said something to that effect, was it Proust? Although I suppose it can't be an uncommon sentiment, if that makes any sense."
"Right, but what to do, with the past seeming so insurmountable chasmish?"
"Can't you just say you've changed, like most people do?"
And in a laugh, simultaneously self-effacing and condescending, he muttered, "that's the thing, there's not the usual continuity. Everything changes, and we can keep an eye on them for the most part, yet the things which we should keep the closest tabs on, seem invisible magic to us, like the small changes that lead to cancer."
"Well, nobody said you had to take the LSAT."
"Right, and I listened."
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