This Is My Life (30 page)

Now Opal listened to the way the three of them were breathing in synchrony, and she marveled at how they all gathered in great, exerted breaths and then let them go. They pushed themselves forward, and their breathing rose and fell, almost, she thought, as if they were hyperventilating.

Meg Wolitzer's novels include
The Wife,
The Position
,
The Ten-Year Nap
,
The Uncoupling
, and
The Interestings.

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