Rose kept taking tiny sips, unwilling to admit that something so much desired could fail her. Haven't we all taken a second sip of sour milk, returned to something we know to be rotten, to give it another chance to fall into accord with our expectations?
Munro understood that people sometimes do things that defy logic. Or, rather, that people are governed by private, sentimental logics.
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