“ …reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped—indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would t… Alexander McCall Smith
“ The reunion, she decided, was an unnecessary and stressful complication to life. We did not need to reheat cold dishes from the past. Alexander McCall Smith
“ Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one’s contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life histories; about reflecting on the ravages—and inj… Alexander McCall Smith
