Winter Doves: A Love StoryTogether, Walter and June, a bitter, attractive, and corrosively articulate short-stay patient recovering from a suicide attempt, escape from the mental hospital and strike out on their own. |
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... leaned , as she was leaning , and she had talked to him , had asked him why it had taken him so long to come and see her , had known that he had been watching her , and had not minded that . He could hear the sound of a baby crying ...
... leaned , as she was leaning , and she had talked to him , had asked him why it had taken him so long to come and see her , had known that he had been watching her , and had not minded that . He could hear the sound of a baby crying ...
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... leaned forward over the rubber bones one day in the spring which followed his sixty - eighth birthday , resting his head on the bones , and snoring loudly . The other patients had giggled , and left him alone , thinking that he had ...
... leaned forward over the rubber bones one day in the spring which followed his sixty - eighth birthday , resting his head on the bones , and snoring loudly . The other patients had giggled , and left him alone , thinking that he had ...
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... leaned out of the windows of their vehicles to shout abuse at him . This traditional greeting , given by London drivers to children , the blind , pregnant women , nuns , the halt and the lame , lasted longer than usual because Walter ...
... leaned out of the windows of their vehicles to shout abuse at him . This traditional greeting , given by London drivers to children , the blind , pregnant women , nuns , the halt and the lame , lasted longer than usual because Walter ...
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asked Baby John Baby Unit bricks buttons carrier bags clean Clifford Clive coffee cold colour conkers curtain dance door Earls Court eyes face feel feet felt fingers flat cap floor floorwalkers Gate Gracie Fields Graham Gunnersbury Park hair hand head holding Hospital hub of Empire inside Jesus Jesus's Mistakes June's laughed leaned Leicester Square light listening mind Mother and Baby mouth moved never night noise noticed nurses once opened patients pigeons pills plastic pull remembered Rita Rita's Robin Christopher round scream seemed seen Senior Adviser shook shouted side sitting sleep slowly smiled someone sound speak Squatters standing stared stood stopped sure talk tell thought told turned Turnham Green voice waited walk walkie-talkie wall Walter and June Walter knew Walter looked Walter smiled watched Waterloo Station window woman Woolworth's words young