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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... nurses had noticed the loss of the slip- pers , but had decided to keep hold of the man and continue walking , thereafter taking a short cut across some gravel , against which the man's bare feet were lightly cut . Normally Walter would ...
... nurses had noticed the loss of the slip- pers , but had decided to keep hold of the man and continue walking , thereafter taking a short cut across some gravel , against which the man's bare feet were lightly cut . Normally Walter would ...
Page 67
... nurses . ' We'll wait . ' Along the wall was a line of chairs , and the two nurses sat down , leaving a chair between them on which June was to sit . June sat . ' This one ' was a woman in her fifties , who lay on a high bed . She was ...
... nurses . ' We'll wait . ' Along the wall was a line of chairs , and the two nurses sat down , leaving a chair between them on which June was to sit . June sat . ' This one ' was a woman in her fifties , who lay on a high bed . She was ...
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... nurses leaning over a woman in a purple cardigan , whose face was covered in blood . The nurses were picking pieces of broken glass out of the face , and the woman sobbed as they did so . This woman was Kathy's mother . June said ...
... nurses leaning over a woman in a purple cardigan , whose face was covered in blood . The nurses were picking pieces of broken glass out of the face , and the woman sobbed as they did so . This woman was Kathy's mother . June said ...
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