The President’s Child

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Fay Weldon. The President’s Child

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THE PRESIDENT’S CHILD

FAY WELDON

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Once, Isabel thought, I believed that events were haphazard and unrelated. I believed that people could be loved and left, and that happenings receded into the past and were gone, and that only with marriage, or its equivalent, and the birth of children, did the real, memorable, responsible life begin. Now she saw it was not so. Nothing was lost, not even the things you most wanted to lose. All things move towards a certain point in time. Our future is conditioned by our past: all of it, not just the paths we choose, or are proud of.

There was nothing to be done except say nothing, do nothing, hug the knowledge to herself. All would yet be well.

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