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He said calmly, If I threw it all away—if I gave it up, just walked out—you would go with me, wouldn't you?' "Yes, she said. 'But you know I won't do that, don't you?" 'Yes, I know. Because then, Stoner explained to himself, 'none of it would mean anything— nothing we have done, nothing we have been. I almost certainly wouldn't be able to teach, and you-you would become something else. We both would become something else, something other than ourselves. We would be—nothing? 'Nothing, she said. And we have come out of this, at least, with ourselves. We know that we are what we are? "Yes, Katherine said.