Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories by Lucia Perillo

Author:Lucia Perillo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: prose_contemporary
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

WELL, HOW THE STORY ENDS, you know, same ending more or less as everyone’s story. My wife, Yvonne Beauchemin. . in the end all we can do is add them to memory’s legions. Of course, my wife’s is a different story, though sometimes I wonder how much different. Inside the body we are all much the same, just as a bird without its pelt of variegated feathers becomes a lump of undistinguished meat. And though it has been years since I’ve done any surgery, I remember in medical school being shocked by the sameness underneath the peeled-back human skin. Yes, you can see the tumor and the place where the broken bone has knitted back together — all the flaws that give us each our individual stamp. But these things are just a fraction of the body, compared with the bulk of what we hold in common.

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