VALENTINE’S DAY THOUGHT. Anthony Doerr, in FOUR SEASONS IN ROME, writes: “A line from Marilynne Robinson’s GILEAD comes back to me. ‘There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.’”
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