A widowed businessman returns early to his quiet mansion, ready to confront the housekeeper, but what he sees changes everything

out to be still capable of expansion. That the house, which had been full of one kind of love, was now capable of being full of a different kind, without the two being in competition. That loss does not cancel the future — it complicates it, makes it more layered, asks more of you, but it does not cancel it.

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