"All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people."
— Edna O'Brien

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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from the story "The Love Object," first published in The New Yorker (1967) and collected in The Love Object': Selected Stories' (2013)