A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldnâ€™t stop change in general. Rivers canâ€™t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldnâ€™t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of them had changed their minds and neither of them could find anything more to say.

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