The copper came to the door to tell us about the accident. It was just like it's supposed to be, the way it is in the films. Asking if I was her son an' all that. Then he told us, and we both went white. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I thought, I've no responsibilities to anyone now.
What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )
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