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“ Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it. ”

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You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

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Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

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...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

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One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

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