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"She resisted the notion of rescue. She was not particularly interested in rescue. Since the age of twenty she had supported herself, financially, emotionally. It was one of the few things she was actually proud of, though she understood it had come at some cost. Like, she thought, the cost of being with anyone, even this passionate, tender, settled man, at once so solid and so miraculously permeable. She also doubted very much that she deserved him."

excerpt from Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz