The Music Room (Reading Group Guides)

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In the bicentennial year of our country's independence from Great Britain, a time when I imagined the American masses celebrative and awash with a sense of history and continuity, my wife of only four years decided it would be best for both of us if she moved in with her mother for a while-a trial separation, she said, though we both were so immediately relieved by the idea of parting, the real thing was bound to endure.

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