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Life After Life Chapter 5 Summary

How It All Goes Down

Snow

11 February 1910

  • Once again, Ursula is born, although, as usual, she almost dies.
  • Sylvie rocks her and realizes how "one could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot" (5.3). Deadly banana peels must run rampant around there.
  • But she tells her young baby to "avoid dark thoughts at all costs" (5.3)—gotta keep that darkness from falling somehow.