1. “Hope grew up and married a mouse who lived in a delicatessen…. She … grew fat on smoked sausages and pickled fish and a dozen sorts of cheeses and biscuits. Cheerful hardly knew her when he went to visit her and see her well-fed family.” Decades before Facebook, Palmer Brown nailed that disorienting feeling you get from catching up with old friends whose lives have diverged from yours utterly.

    “Hope grew up and married a mouse who lived in a delicatessen…. She … grew fat on smoked sausages and pickled fish and a dozen sorts of cheeses and biscuits. Cheerful hardly knew her when he went to visit her and see her well-fed family.”

    Decades before Facebook, Palmer Brown nailed that disorienting feeling you get from catching up with old friends whose lives have diverged from yours utterly.

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