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Intolerance,' she wrote, pressing down hard on the pencil, "is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and to each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror and heart and soul breaking of the world." She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them. She closed the book and put it away.

Anything you say may be used against you.

But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.

The Nolans just couldn't get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn't enough. They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with.

The tears stood in her eyes.

But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things - or as a compromise, re-live rather than reminisce.