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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... walk short , and found on his return that the woman was there again , or perhaps had never moved . Yet still that night there was no mention in all the con- versation and gossip of the staff of any cracks in the paths which surrounded ...
... walk short , and found on his return that the woman was there again , or perhaps had never moved . Yet still that night there was no mention in all the con- versation and gossip of the staff of any cracks in the paths which surrounded ...
Page 185
... walk again , unaided , to walk as a good boy walked , not held , but with difficulty . When he had not been a good boy , his mother had said , ' You break my heart , Walter , ' and he had known that a broken heart must be a painful ...
... walk again , unaided , to walk as a good boy walked , not held , but with difficulty . When he had not been a good boy , his mother had said , ' You break my heart , Walter , ' and he had known that a broken heart must be a painful ...
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... walk , to go on walking ; if they didn't get a move on , he would make them run . Walter commanded , and his feet disobeyed . They slowed down . Even a child , an invalid , a cripple , a one - legged man with a wheel- barrow could walk ...
... walk , to go on walking ; if they didn't get a move on , he would make them run . Walter commanded , and his feet disobeyed . They slowed down . Even a child , an invalid , a cripple , a one - legged man with a wheel- barrow could walk ...
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