In the canon
So Long a Letter
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1980
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 90
A newly widowed woman writes to her oldest friend, working through her decades-long marriage and her husband's late second marriage to a girl young enough to be her daughter, and asking what freedom still looks like for a woman her age.
Friendship has splendours that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love.
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