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When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them.Why? Luciana asked. Because you come to love your children more. I lost my mother and father to images in photographs and handwriting on letters, and as I abandoned them for you, the saddest thing was that they made no protest.Even now that I'm going back to them, I regret above all that I must leave you.You're not going back to anybody, Alessandro told him. We'll solve those problems later.Alessandro, his father said, almost cheerfully. You don't understand. This kind of problem is very special: it has no solution.

Mark Helprin

When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them.Why? Luciana asked. Because you come to love your children more. I lost my mother and father to images in photographs and handwriting on letters, and as I abandoned them for you, the saddest thing was that they made no protest.Even now that I'm going back to them, I regret above all that I must leave you.You're not going back to anybody, Alessandro told him. We'll solve those problems later.Alessandro, his father said, almost cheerfully. You don't understand. This kind of problem is very special: it has no solution.

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About Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".