February is a Suitable Month For Dying
by Anna Quindlen
February is a suitable month for dying.
Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.
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