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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Page 44
... told me I'd be here for two weeks , just for the rest , and that was forty years ago . ' Bernard had been sixty - eight when he had told this to Walter . It was his birthday , and he was crying . He had never had a visitor . He had been ...
... told me I'd be here for two weeks , just for the rest , and that was forty years ago . ' Bernard had been sixty - eight when he had told this to Walter . It was his birthday , and he was crying . He had never had a visitor . He had been ...
Page 68
... told her , told a child who could not have been capable of understanding such a thought , that her tears were a protest , and that after them would come mourning , mourning for the lost object , and then - had he predic- ted Thanatos ...
... told her , told a child who could not have been capable of understanding such a thought , that her tears were a protest , and that after them would come mourning , mourning for the lost object , and then - had he predic- ted Thanatos ...
Page 79
... told her of being taken by his father to the Harrogate Show , when Amy , the Tumbler , had come third in her class , of how a small boy had tried to run away with a Black - Lace Fantail , knocked over a whole row of cages , and sent a ...
... told her of being taken by his father to the Harrogate Show , when Amy , the Tumbler , had come third in her class , of how a small boy had tried to run away with a Black - Lace Fantail , knocked over a whole row of cages , and sent a ...
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