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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... Leicester Square , which had electric cables nailed to their trunks and floodlights secured to their branches . Even dogs were forbidden by a public notice from answering a call of Nature against those trees . Walter waited for the ...
... Leicester Square , which had electric cables nailed to their trunks and floodlights secured to their branches . Even dogs were forbidden by a public notice from answering a call of Nature against those trees . Walter waited for the ...
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... Leicester Square - you remember that large map we stopped and looked at ? Just keep walking in a straight line , and you'll come to it . All right ? ' Walter nodded . ' Here goes . ' June stood , and moved slowly towards the back of the ...
... Leicester Square - you remember that large map we stopped and looked at ? Just keep walking in a straight line , and you'll come to it . All right ? ' Walter nodded . ' Here goes . ' June stood , and moved slowly towards the back of the ...
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... Leicester Square . The coloured lights of the SS Hispaniola , reflected in the thick black oil of the Thames , reminded him of a taffeta dress his mother had once worn . He allowed his mind to be drawn into them , pulled down into warm ...
... Leicester Square . The coloured lights of the SS Hispaniola , reflected in the thick black oil of the Thames , reminded him of a taffeta dress his mother had once worn . He allowed his mind to be drawn into them , pulled down into warm ...
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