A Kind Of Mourning

“They had slid into an infatuation with an English comedy about life in a department store and had watched so many reruns that they knew the dialogue by heart. They mourned the disappearance of actors who died in real life or went off to other jobs, then welcomed those same actors back as the characters were born again.”

(Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship..., "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", p.283)