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… assured the family of the deceased that the regional police commander would do everything in his power to find the … days later Rachel chose to battle a classmate. Vanessa was also a junior—a Garifuna from Honduras. Her father traded in … Rachel had to admit, impossibly well-educated. In social studies Vanessa leaned forward in her chair and told the class …

… said one implying that they were sliced up by patrician ladies wearing tiaras and the editor of a food magazine said … that the owner of the restaurant, Sir Terence Conran, had become a figure to watch, criticize, envy, and sometimes … as she had to know what a Caesar salad costing £17 ($26) tasted like. The article turned into an assault on the …

… The young always do. That is why we remember the young who die too soon to lose anything but their lives. That is why … They will always believe the world is simple, and they only die once. This is not what I intended, but it won’t stay … needs a friend. But only the dead are permanent, so we’ve come to this place to find— what? Lost innocence? Our true …

… don’t expect giggles from a man with tattoos. He told me Welcome to the Neighborhood, it’s a Nice Neighborhood, I been … in a square white baker’s shirt, to cafeterias or hospitals to “fill in” someone’s absence. “I made 35-dozen … you know what I mean? That’s what I learned when my father died. I was a young man. I got up the next day and went …

… This, I thought, was not only terrific satire, but fine comedy as well. Yet when I recently read the passage again, … such different chords at once is not only high art, it’s also the essence of Carol Shields’ writing—the iridescent, … set, skimming giddily across the River Styx. Carol Shields died on July 16, 2003, at her home in Victoria, British …