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The Bear Came Over the Mountain

Alice Munro

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1999
Pages
Pages 20

The rule at Meadowlake is that new residents receive no visitors for their first thirty days. When Grant is finally allowed back, his wife Fiona is polite to him, faintly puzzled, and sitting at the card table beside a man named Aubrey, whose hands she watches as if nothing else existed.

He took her up on it, he shouted yes. He wanted never to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
The Bear Came Over the Mountain, Alice Munro

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