Elizabeth Berg - Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we

Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.

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Berg, Elizabeth. Talk Before Sleep. Random House, 1994, p. 77.

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