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"Le Fanu's Story."

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"Sheridan Le Fanu
offers a variation

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on this story in which the whole
family hears a carriage arrive

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late at night just at
the time that they later

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learn their older daughter
has died miles away.

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Even the dogs start barking,
and they all clearly hear

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the folding down of
the carriage stairs.

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But when they open the door,
the courtyard is empty,

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and the dogs recoil in fear.

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So that the sight of anyone
in an unexpected place,

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so that the voice now traveling
alone out all on its own

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on a quiet day--

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I saw a friend I
knew to be in Japan.

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I once saw my sister on a train.

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Sometimes it's only
a strong resemblance,

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and then you wonder if
the person in question

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hasn't had a close
call, crossing

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the street with an absent mind
or walked out of the building

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just moments before it blew
up, caught a cab on the corner

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and never knew.

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It happens every day.

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We are made in a thin thread
or of the line incised

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into the pain, which may only
be a photograph, she said.

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Whenever I look
at a photograph, I

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see not the man
who died years ago,

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but the one who
will, or in a window,

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turned and touched his
fingers to his lips."