Next she felt a knocking in her chest and discovered something else new: her own heartbeat. Had it been there all along? This pounding thing? She felt like a fool and began to laugh out loud. Mr. Garner looked over his shoulder at her with wide brown eyes and smiled himself. “What’s funny, Jenny?”

She couldn’t stop laughing. “My heart’s beating,” she said.

And it was true.

Beloved, Toni Morrison

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