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The Double Surprise Sentence

The Double Surprise Sentence

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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In that smile, in that gaze she saw something unbearably wretched, the more unbearable the more she loved her brother, and felt the need to stay beside him to help him and be helped.

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