Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You_.epub

Table of Contents Title Page Epigraph 1 - Thursday, July 24, 2003 2 - Friday, July 25, 2003 3 - April 2003 4 - Friday, July 25, 2003 5 - May 2003 6 - Saturday, July 26, 2003 7 - May 2003 8 - June 2003 9 - April 2003 10 - June 2003 11 - Monday, July 28, 2003 12 - Monday, July 28, 2003 13 - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 14 - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 15 - Tuesday, July 29, 2003 16 - Wednesday, July 30, 2003 17 - October 2003 ALSO BY PETER CAMERON Copyright Page For Justin Richardson and in memory of Marie Nash Shaw 1900–1993 Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. —Ovid When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death. —Denton Welch Journal, 8 May 1944, 11.15 p.m. 1 Thursday, July 24, 2003 THE DAY MY SISTER, GILLIAN, DECIDED TO PRONOUNCE her name with a hard G was, coincidentally, the same day my mother returned, early and alone, from her honeymoon. Neither of these things surprised me. Gillian, ......