Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) - ISBN: 9781429994309