How to Tell If You Are in an Alice Munro Story

• Your sister met a man once. He loved her despite — or perhaps because of — her chronic illness. 
• He is your husband now. You have no children. 
• Nothing has ever happened to you except one thing, decades ago.
  
  You are having an affair with a married man. His sister knows, and hates you. She has volunteered to drive you back to town. 
• You see the man you once thought you’d marry. 
• He is married to someone less attractive than you. But aren’t you both less attractive now, after all this time? 
• You are thoughtful, well-read, and ruthlessly practical. You never marry. 
• You went to a place once. Decades later, you return under very different circumstances. 
• You see truths about people that no one in your small Canadian town wants to admit. A married man can sense this about you, and he offers to take you for a drive.

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