times Ruma felt closer mother death life, intimacy born simply thinkin — Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

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There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

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