Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that ge…

Janet Frame
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Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind ✨ Janet Frame (1951). The lagoon: stories
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Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind ✨ Janet Frame (1951). The lagoon: stories

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