Some Very Special Truths

metaphors of growth and fertility buihninto the story (and heavy-handedly correspondingnto Caroline's finally achievingnfeminine maturity, at age thirty),nCaroline still casts about for an imagento better describe her lover. She finallynfinds it: "soft spring rain." Incidentally,nin order that outward events chime wellnwith what is, after all, a . . .