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There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she makes when she turns or slightly bends our unwieldy form. It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence. When she's no longer twenty-eight and pregnant and beautiful, or even free, she won't remember the way she set down the spoon and the sound it made on slate, the frock she wore today, the touch of her sandal's thong between her toes, the summer's warmth, the white noise of the city beyond the house walls, a short burst of birdsong by a closed window. All gone, already.
Ian McEwan Nutshell forgetting memory ordinary

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LIES 433 clues
LIFE 399 clues
TRUTH 150 clues
YOUTH 142 clues
LONDON 125 clues
PUBS 93 clues
ALCOHOL 91 clues
ORDINARY 84 clues
MEMORY 78 clues
FORGETTING 56 clues
POVERTY 53 clues
ADOLESCENCE 49 clues

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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
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