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 101
... curtain hanging near the organ , and was busy unhooking the brass curtain rings . It would not be as simple as leading a crocodile of Jesus's Mis- takes through the town , and remembering where it was safe to take them . Now there would ...
... curtain hanging near the organ , and was busy unhooking the brass curtain rings . It would not be as simple as leading a crocodile of Jesus's Mis- takes through the town , and remembering where it was safe to take them . Now there would ...
Page 107
... curtain as he could retrieve from June around his nakedness , he watched the door open inwards , and a huge bunch of chrysanthemums and a pair of female legs appear . ' Jesus wants me for a sunbeam , to shine for him each day . ' The ...
... curtain as he could retrieve from June around his nakedness , he watched the door open inwards , and a huge bunch of chrysanthemums and a pair of female legs appear . ' Jesus wants me for a sunbeam , to shine for him each day . ' The ...
Page 204
... curtains just as Walter had imagined it . ' She's waiting up for you , then . ' Walter almost fell from the ambulance in his haste to get to the front door . ' Mind how you go on that foot . ' He was giggling to himself , chuckling and ...
... curtains just as Walter had imagined it . ' She's waiting up for you , then . ' Walter almost fell from the ambulance in his haste to get to the front door . ' Mind how you go on that foot . ' He was giggling to himself , chuckling and ...
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