The Albanian Virgin - Alice Munro

[jenny_pop]

"My connection was in danger - that was all. Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, then, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?"

-from the short story "The Albanian Virgin" in Alice Munro's Open Secrets