I just don't know how I'm going to live with myself, he said. It was a conclusion reached by many people in the Grey Room and it was always amazing and strangely consoling to Ivy how the audience would let the statement lie. You never tried to talk a person out of what had been said, or felt. Outside of the Grey Rooms people tended to say, You won't always feel that way and That's not true and even You don't mean it. But not here.
Susan Minot, from Don't Be a Stranger












