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"The sentence in the last-pass galleys read: 'It was as close a declaration of love as J.J. was capable of making.' I would have added a preposition: 'It was as close to a declaration of love as J.J. was capable of making.' I sat by the window and watched the ice floes on the Hudson and thought about the sentence. It was as close a declaration of

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This book made me bawl like a big baby. Did you love it?

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i bawled at this part, in particular. i'd had several glasses of wine, and that'll usually make me bawl at a lot of things, but i remembered it in the morning and finished the rest. so that's a yes, loved it.