Some things you know right away to be final — when you lose your last baby tooth, or when you go to sleep for the ultimate time as a twelve-year-old on the night beforeyour thirteenth birthday. Other times, you have to work out the milestone later via subtraction, a math you do to assign significance, like when I figured out what I’d just blown through my last-ever Wednesday with Mom on the day after she died.

- from Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!

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