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So many people, thinking they were taking care of me, asked if I was over Wade’s death yet. I will never be “over” it, I would tell them, and they would look back at me blankly. If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was “over” it. They would ask how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade.Tags: death, Elizabeth Edwards, Resilience
When I heard this quote on the audiobook, I had to check out the book so I could find the quote.
The key sentence sounded much better than it reads:
If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was “over” it.
I am surprised the editor did not rework this and remove a comma or two:
I would tell them, no one would ever ask me if I was “over” it if I had lost a leg instead of a boy.
On the audio version there was no ambiguity because the reader could do some voice inflections that are lost in the text unless you read it a couple times.