Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a …

Jeanette Winterson
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Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2013). Written On The Body, p.119, Random House
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Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2013). Written On The Body, p.119, Random House

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