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She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. ‘Pick me up’, is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.

-The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera