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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... listening to Baby John's crying , each waiting for the other to make the next move . It was Clive who made it . His calves and thighs had begun to ache ; he would have to stand before cramp made standing impossible . He stood . Then he ...
... listening to Baby John's crying , each waiting for the other to make the next move . It was Clive who made it . His calves and thighs had begun to ache ; he would have to stand before cramp made standing impossible . He stood . Then he ...
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... listening since no one else seemed to listen to her any more , needed his truth . But if he was deceiving her , where was the truth ? Even now , he did not speak . Why not ? Other people , when she spoke , wore a mask of interest , but ...
... listening since no one else seemed to listen to her any more , needed his truth . But if he was deceiving her , where was the truth ? Even now , he did not speak . Why not ? Other people , when she spoke , wore a mask of interest , but ...
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... listening - listening sometimes to silence , sometimes to complaint , to despair , joke calls , hoax calls , silent calls , breathers and wankers , the lonely , the depressed , the schizophrenic , the fear- ful , pregnant , deviant ...
... listening - listening sometimes to silence , sometimes to complaint , to despair , joke calls , hoax calls , silent calls , breathers and wankers , the lonely , the depressed , the schizophrenic , the fear- ful , pregnant , deviant ...
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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