How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way…

J. K. Rowling
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How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement. ✨ J.K. Rowling (2012). The Casual Vacancy, p.88, Hachette UK
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How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement. ✨ J.K. Rowling (2012). The Casual Vacancy, p.88, Hachette UK

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