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Fates and Furies
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A complex and multi-layered portrait of a marriage, told from two different perspectives.

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In marriage, in life, in everything, it takes a certain resilience to survive.

Lauren Groff

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People said: Do not be too good. You will be a burden.

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It was a beautiful word, 'fidelity'. It was meaningful and muscular and alluring.

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Love doesn't always survive a marriage.

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If you live in water, you are part and you are whole.

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But youth is the first of the gifts, and the old must learn to grow older.

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The first-born daughter would be a fury in the world.

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Sometimes the grandest plans are the most fragile.

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The point is, you keep going. You want to. So all that's left is to keep walking.

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It's a trap, the two-body problem. It's a joke.

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